The author of a book tied to the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson is drawing fury online after using the shooting to generate sales.
Author Jay Feinmans 2010 book Delay, Deny, Defend, details why insurance companies dont pay claims and what you can do about it.
Attention was brought to the 14-year-old publication after it was discovered bullet casings left at Thompsons murder scene were scrawled with words depose, deny and defend - extremely similar to Feinmans title.
Thompson was shot in the back and calf early on Wednesday morning by a masked man who fled on a bike, before the CEO succumbed to his injuries in hospital.
When Feinman was contacted by DailyMail.com for his take, he simply responded no comment.
But concern is brewing over Feinman appearing to take the opportunity to ignite more sales of the $10.99 bestseller.
Amazon is being restocked. About a week, he tweeted in one message on Friday evening.
Only minutes later, he again took to X to plug the 197-page book.
Author Jay Feinman is drawing fury online as he as posted a series of tweets in which he has shamelessly promoted how his out of print work is to once again be restocked by Amazon
Attention was brought to the 14-year-old publication after bullet casings left at Thompsons murder scene were scrawled with words depose, deny and defend
Because folks have been asking: Delay, Deny, Defend paperback out of stock on Amazon. the only source. Restock soon. Kindle available, he wrote.
But the tactless approached has drawn criticism online.
Are you really attempting to profit on an assassination? Bide your time and count your money later, wrote one in response.
Your disgusting, anti-capitalist book which you claim is meant for good has now been used as justification to MURDER other human beings and now you’re PITCHING it?! The irony is lost on you, another fumed.
Feinman is a law professor at Rutgers University. There is nothing to suggest Feinman had any connection to the attack.
His book explains how the health insurance industry routinely puts claimants off with bureaucratic tactics and, in the end, never end up paying out.
On Saturday night, the NYPD released new pictures of the healthcare CEOs assassin late Saturday night as the huge manhunt entered its fifth day.
UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was shot dead on Wednesday morning
The suspect was picked up on 86th Street and Columbus Avenue two minutes after he left Central Park in Manhattans Upper West Side
The bag was found by cops on their second sweep of the park and was placed between boulders just south of the parks carousel
One of the images show the killer - who is wearing a fresh coat and has a face mask on - cowering inside the back of a cab while the other sees him outside the vehicle on the road.
The images appear to have been taken inside the taxi which picked him up on 86th Street and Columbus Avenue two minutes after he left Central Park in Manhattans Upper West Side.
Shocking footage showed the gunman approach Mr Thompson from several feet and shoot, causing him to fall.
The gunman fired multiple shots during the ambush and jammed his gun in the process, but managed to quickly clear the obstruction and continue firing.
After the assailant darted across the road and out of sight, Mr Thompson was rushed to Mt Sinai Hospital in critical condition, where he was later pronounced dead.
No arrests have yet been made.
Crime Stoppers is offering a $50,000 reward for information.
Online commentators were quick to point that the words found on the casings resembled insurance terminology and tactics.
One noted difference is that the book has delay in its title, whereas one casing reportedly had depose on it.
As Thompson stumbled down the street, a witness in the hotels entryway sprinted away
Police sources told ABC News that casings were found at the scene with the cryptic messages left on them
United is the biggest health insurer by market share in America. They have been the subject of protests by activists for allegedly systematically denying care for patients.
One such protest earlier this year led to the arrests of 11 people outside the United Healthcare headquarters in Minnetonka, Minnesota.
Thompson was being investigated by the Department of Justice for antitrust violations and was accused of insider trading.
The department launched a probe into whether the private company was unfairly restricting competitors and running a monopoly.
Police sources close to the investigation told CNN that they believe the shooter was an experienced marksman based on his reactions.
Firearms experts who studied the surveillance footage told the outlet that he reacted in the way someone with training from law enforcement or military would be trained to react to such an issue.
Police had said in their initial preliminary brief that the killer escaped into Central Park on the electric bike and released an image of the suspect on a bike after the shooting, seen here
Detectives and members of the New York City police departments Crime Scene Unit at the scene where UnitedHealthcares CEO Brian Thompson was shot and killed, on Wednesday
Thompson is understood to have been in New York for a conference when he was shot.
His schedule was widely known, and witnesses have said the suspected gunman even knew which door Thompson was going to emerge from before opening fire.
Authorities say the attacker fled the scene on foot before then making a getaway on an electric bike into nearby Central Park.
Paulette Thompson, 51, told NBC News she was aware her ex-husband had been threatened.
There had been some threats, she said.
I dont know details. I just know that he said there were some people that had been threatening him before his trip to New York, she added.
Ms Thompson said that she could not really give a thoughtful response right now as she had just found this out and was trying to console [her] children.
She said police had told her it is believed to have been a targeted attack.