NYPD Finds Backpack in Central Park Possibly Belonging to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s Killer

NYPD investigators found a gray backpack hidden in the brush in Central Park on Friday that could be the one ditched by the assassin who gunned down United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, cops and sources said.

The bag was recovered south of the carousel near Heckscher playground and looks similar to the gray backpack worn by the shooter when he opened fire on Thompson, 50, outside the Hilton hotel in Midtown on Wednesday, sources said. . .

Investigators did not open the bag and sent it straight to the lab for forensic testing, police sources told The Post.

Thompson’s killer’s bag was described by NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny as “very distinctive,” in a Friday press briefing. “It is huge and gray” he added.

Paul Dering, the founder and chief executive of Peak Design, told The New York Times he thinks the backpack worn by the gunman in the surveillance photos released by the NYPD could be a version of the “Everyday Backpack” his company sells. (Read more from “NYPD Finds Backpack in Central Park Possibly Belonging to United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson’s Killer” HERE)