Insurance executive's murder sparks online praise and hate

Law enforcement officials told NBC News they found the words “deny,” “defend” and “depose,” written on the shell casings found at the shooting scene. Those words seem to echo the title of a 2010 book, “Delay Deny Defend,” whose subtitle is, “Why insurance companies don’t pay claims and what you can do about it.”

Sounds personal.

And what kind of a pro assassin goes to Starbucks before doing the hit and then rides off into the sunset on an ebike?

It sounds to me like a professional hit. The guy used a silencer and when his gun jammed he cleared the jam and got off a couple more shots

I'm no gun expert, but this doesn't sound special or advanced. Just seems like basic research and planning after checking how previous assassinations have failed. From what I've seen there are plenty of suggestions it was amateur but reasonably-well planned.

Disagree. This is someone with some training who lost a family member to the denial of healthcare. Losing money doesn’t produce murderous rage. Losing family does.

The LOL part is that narrows down the suspect list to millions

Except that after the drop when the investigation was made public, it's doing better than it was just prior to the announcement.

So unless an investor decided to sell at its lowest point, which is unlikely, they've actually made money since that news came out

A professional would have a lighter return spring in the slide to not jam on subsonics. In fact, an amateur with half a brain would have as well.

Serious tinfoil but this theory is about as valid as the current narrative.

We just don't know why this happened, we just know that it it did.

What we are getting from media is dead exec and bullets with words... everything else is just online discourse making up theories or cheering dead exec.

No that i can't about either (i don't cry over bad things happening tot bad people when country is full of decent people getting fucked over) but story is developing. People can hate this PoS and he could have been killed by some oligarch.

The guy used a silencer and when his gun jammed he cleared the jam and got off a couple more shots.

that's something you could do with about five minutes of training. if he was a "professional", he probably would've used a nielson device, or, if he just had some shitty turkish oil filter, a non-tilting barrel design, like a hi-point, so the suppressor doesn't induce malfunctions. he also probably would've waited a little bit further down the guy's path. he pulled off his hit in broad view of a camera which was directly behind him, and he stopped for starbucks and a couple protein bars down the street, and left his garbage on site. none of these things matter too much since the police are pretty bad at their job, but if the feds get involved, things might take a different turn, and little mistakes like those add up. if his gun had jammed more severely, he might not have been successful at all. no, this speaks to me as a kind of amateur endeavor.

now, it's still somewhat unlikely, but it is, I suppose, possible, that he was still hired. actual hitmen would probably tend to be so professional that you will basically never see them, like the guy that probably killed the boeing whistleblower, or part of some obviously state sanctioned special forces unit. The can also be unprofessional schmucks that are willing to just eat the sentence for an organized crime syndicate, and in less high profile cases, they can just be random people down on their luck who are willing to kill for a couple thousand dollars and know someone who's willing to pay that fee, which never really works out too well.