Death of Citigroup Executive Called Suspicious

© Provided by The Wall Street Journal.A Citigroup Inc. executive was found dead in the bathtub of his home in Manhattan on Tuesday from an apparent slash wound to the neck, New York City authorities said.

Shawn Miller, 42 years old, a Citigroup managing director, had marks on his arms and throat in the bathtub at his Financial District apartment at 120 Greenwich St. when emergency responders reached him after 3 p.m. Tuesday, a law enforcement official said. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police said the death appeared suspicious. An autopsy conducted Wednesday by the city’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner was inconclusive and required further study, a spokeswoman said.

Mr. Miller joined Citigroup in 2004 and was managing director of the environment and social risk management team.

He “was highly regarded at Citi and across the financial services industry as a thought leader and tireless advocate for environmental and sustainable business practices,” Citigroup said in a memo to employees.

Mr. Miller’s brother, Dan Miller, of Roxbury, Idaho, said the death had shocked the close-knit family. He said one of Mr. Miller’s two sisters was speaking to police and declined to comment further.

Police said they wanted to speak to a man who was seen in the building’s elevator with Mr. Miller shortly before 6:30 p.m. Saturday. The man was seen leaving the building around 4:45 p.m. Sunday in the same clothes he had been wearing a day earlier, but returned about 15 minutes later asking to see Mr. Miller, police said.

Mr. Miller had informed the doorman that the man was “not welcome in the building” and he was turned away, a law-enforcement official said.

The last images of Mr. Miller alive came on Monday at 6:30 p.m., when a surveillance video captured his image in the elevator, the official said. A man who described himself as Mr. Miller’s boyfriend told police the last time the two had a conversation was at 7:11 p.m. that night by telephone, police said.

The boyfriend called the building’s doorman about 2:30 p.m. Tuesday concerned that he hadn’t been able to reach him and asked the doorman to check on him, police said.

The doorman went to the apartment, and after receiving no response, went inside and found the executive in the bathtub wounded and unconscious, police said.

Prior to joining Citi, Mr. Miller worked at the IFC, the private sector INVESTMENT arm of the World Bank Group, where he focused on environmental and social policy development, according to a 2010 Citigroup press release. Starting in 2010, Mr. Miller led Citi’s efforts as the elected chairman of the Equator Principles Financial Institutions Steering Committee.

He received a Masters degree from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs from Syracuse University in 1995.

Write to Pervaiz Shallwani at pervaiz.shallwani@wsj.com and Christina Rexrode at christina.rexrode@wsj.com

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