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WARNING Graphic content: The CEO of UnitedHealthcare, Brian Thompson, was shot and killed Wednesday in front of a midtown Manhattan hotel, the NYPD said. NewsdayTV's Ken Buffa reports.

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Brian Thompson was outside the Hilton Hotel on Sixth Avenue when a masked man approached him and fired multiple times just before 7 a.m. and then fled he scene, NYPD Commissioner Jessica Tisch said.

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Wounded NYPD officer Christopher Leap arrived home in Suffolk late Thursday evening accompanied by family and members of the NYPD. 

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Plaza33, a pedestrian plaza outside of Penn Station, was unveiled on Monday.

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Bernardo Raul Castro Mata was arraigned Tuesday for allegedly shooting and wounding two NYPD police officers from Long Island earlier this month.

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