Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz appeared to double down Thursday on her previous statement about the potential motive behind the targeted murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson.

The healthcare executive was killed outside of the Hilton Hotel in midtown Manhattan, New York earlier this week. The suspect is still on the loose.

“And people wonder why we want these executives dead,” Lorenz wrote on the social media site Bluesky along with a report about Blue Cross Blue Shield not providing full coverage for anesthesia-related procedures. The decision has since been reversed. 

Lorenz, now a podcaster for Vox Media, defended her comment after receiving backlash on social media, according to Off the Press.

“Let me be super clear: my post uses a collective ‘we’ and is explaining the public sentiment. It is not me personally saying ‘I want these executives dead and so we should kill them,'” Lorenz said. “I am explaining that thousands of Americans (myself included) are fed up with our barbaric healthcare system and the people at the top who rake in millions while inflicting pain, suffering, and death on millions of innocent people.”

She concluded, “If you have watched a loved one die because an insurance conglomerate has denied their life saving treatment as a cost cutting measure, yes, it’s natural to wish that the people who run such conglomerates would suffer the same fate.”