Michael Clayton in NYC

This news item, of an executive from a healthcare conglomerate who is shot in what looked like a planned execution on a New York City sidewalk, is scarily reminiscent of that classic movie starring George Clooney and Tom Wilkinson. The last time I came across a headline that was so close to popular fiction was this D.C. murder, which featured a local businessman, a manhunt, and the horror/comic story of a pizza-ordering killer, and the victim’s family was Greek—basically all the ingredients of a George Pelecanos novel.

I guess it makes sense that, if writers can think up plots like this, real people can act in those ways. It’s still just so horrible.