Background
On October 12, 2024, UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was assassinated in what appears to be a targeted attack. According to law enforcement, the suspect Luigi Mangione allegedly carried out a premeditated attack. As of October 15, 2024, there have been 58 incidents of school shootings in the United States this year.
Resolution Criteria
This market will resolve YES if a CEO of any publicly traded company is assassinated before 5 separate school shooting incidents occur in the United States. It will resolve NO if 5 school shootings occur before any CEO assassination.
Will use mainstream outlet reporting for CEO killing and https://k12ssdb.org
for school stastistics. stastistics.
Update 2024-11-12 (PST) (AI summary of creator comment): - The CEO assassination must be of a US publicly traded company
The assassination must be widely believed to be targeting the CEO position as reported by mainstream media
Deaths from personal feuds, crimes of passion, petty crimes (like robbery) will not count as assassinations for market resolution
@noonglade Really needs clarification. WaPo once included an incident where campus police shot a sword wielding moron in their "school shooting database".
@snazzlePop Looks like it from the description, yes.
The angle shot I see is asking if it has to be a US traded company or if any company on any stock exchange in the world counts.
Currently, I read it as the whole world of publically traded companies being fair game.
@snazzlePop USA only, yes. I should clarify that the CEO assassination should be a CEO of a publicly traded company where the assassin is widely believed to be acting based on the position as reported by mainstream media rather than a personal feud, crime of passion, petty crime, etc.
If a random small business owner gets killed in a robbery, that will not resolve YES, for example.