UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty recalled slain colleague Brian Thompson as “one of the good guys” and encouraged employees to “honor his life” by helping patients and their families in a new memo Wednesday,

Andrew Witty reacted on Friday to the deluge of social media posts celebrating the Dec. 4 killing of Thompson in Midtown Manhattan.

"Brian was one of the good guys. He was certainly one of the smartest guys," Witty wrote. "I'm going to miss him."

In a New York Times opinion pieces, Witty made his first public comments since last week's fatal shooting of Thompson.

Andrew Witty, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, UnitedHealthcare's parent company, said he is "struggling to make sense" of Brian Thompson's murder

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty said the company remains in a “state of mourning” over the shocking death of Brian Thompson as ivy league graduate Luigi Mangione is accused of Thompson's murder.

Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group Inc., called for health-industry reforms in a New York Times essay, his first public comments since the killing of one of his company's top executives.

"No one would design a system like the one we have," UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty wrote in the New York Times.

Andrew Witty, the CEO of UnitedHealth Group, memorialized slain executive Brian Thompson in an op-ed and acknowledged industry flaws.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty wrote in an op-ed that the company wants to continue to push for health care industry reforms following the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

UnitedHealth Group CEO Andrew Witty mourned the killing of executive Brian Thompson and said he understood public frustrations with the “flawed” U.S. healthcare system. “No one would design a system like the one we have. And no one did. It’s a ...

Brian Thompson, who was praised for his significant contributions to the healthcare industry, was a key advocate for advancing UnitedHealth’s goals. Witty described Thompson as instrumental in improving the healthcare system and promised to honor his legacy.