At least Luigi didn’t miss him, I suppose

Someone posted this on Threads:

A somewhat… ungenerous thought, but it did remind me of her first statement after the shooting:

“Yes, there had been some threats basically I don’t know, a lack of coverage? I don’t know details,” she told NBC News. “I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him.”

Which I must say struck me at the time as at least slightly odd… I mean, your husband admits he’s been getting threats over his work and you don’t try to find out why? If a loved one of mine told me that, I’d be hammering them for all the information I could get out of them in order to, you know, start making sure those threats didn’t progress. Maybe she was in shock at the time and I’m being unkind here.

Or maybe not?

The slain UnitedHealthcare CEO had a criminal record for drunk driving and was secretly separated from his wife for years before he was shot dead in Manhattan on Wednesday, according to public records. Minnesota court filings show that in 2017 Brian Thompson was arrested and convicted on charges of fourth-degree driving while impaired, for which he received probation. In addition to legal troubles, the executive, who was gunned down in what NYPD has labeled a “premeditated, pre-planned, targeted attack,” also seems to have faced recent marital issues. Based on property records, voter registration forms, and reports from neighbors, Brian and Paulette Thompson had lived in different homes less than a mile apart in Maple Grove, Minnesota, for the past several years, The Wall Street Journal reported. In 2018, Thompson bought a five-bedroom second house for around $1 million, while his wife’s residence remained in another house nearby, also worth about $1 million, based on Zillow listings and public records.

Mr Voorhees above may not have been entirely wrong? I don’t know. Anyway, just another kind of grubby detail in this story…