US CEO shooting suspect identified, ‘net tightening’, New York mayor says

New York’s mayor said on Saturday that “the net is tightening” on the man suspected of gunning down a top health insurance executive before fleeing the city.

Mayor Eric Adams also said detectives knew the name of the fresh-faced suspect, an image of whom was released by investigators on Thursday and who has now been on the run for almost four days.

Adams praised “the manner in which [investigators] were able to follow his footsteps to recover evidence – some of it is known, some of it is unknown – but the net is tightening and we’re going to bring this person to justice”, he said, according to a report in the New York Post.

The masked assailant was caught on camera entering a bus station in a northern neighbourhood of Manhattan in the wake of Wednesday’s slaying, but he could not be identified exiting the facility on foot, a police spokesman said.

“They believe he’s not in New York City,” the spokesman added.

The image of the smiling suspect was obtained from a youth hostel where the gunman apparently stayed before the hit, detectives said, with media reporting he lowered his mask to flirt with a receptionist.