A grainy image of his face drew comparisons to Hollywood heartthrobs. A jacket similar to the one he’s wearing on wanted posters is reportedly flying off the shelves. And the words written on the bullets he used to kill a man in cold blood on a sidewalk on Wednesday have become, for some people, a rallying cry.

Four days after a gunman assassinated a top health insurance executive in Midtown Manhattan and vanished, the unidentified suspect has, in some quarters, been venerated as something approaching a folk hero.

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    16 days ago

    good time to start a career in security as a non-American because these scumbags literally can’t trust anyone in their country to not step out of the way at the first opportunity, but I can’t see anyone else taking a bullet for them either so … good luck to them.