30 year old Thomas Gilbert Jr. shot and killed his father Thomas Gilbert Sr. age 70 in New York on Sunday afternoon in his parents’ multimillion-dollar Beekman Place apartment. Gilbert Jr. was in debt and lived off his father's money, his father gave him $3,000 a month for his Chelsea apartment and $600 allowance. Gilbert Sr. was planning to stop paying his son's rent and reduce his allowance to $400 a week. When Gilbert Jr. asked his mom to go out to get him something to eat while he had a conversation with his that, he shot and killed him with a 40-caliber Glock 22 containing hollow points and staged it to look like a suicide. When his mother came back 15 minutes after leaving she found her husband dead on the bedroom floor with a bullet through his head. Thomas Gilbert Jr. had no job, saw a therapist regularly for mental illness, his ex said he was a loner and had problems with his dad, friends say he was troubled, he attended Princeton University like his father, wanted to start a trust fund, but he didn't because he knew his father wouldn't help him, and had a past with the law. Gilbert Jr. had a restraining order from Peter Smith a former friend and roommate and broke it on Sept. 1, he was charged with criminal contempt. A few days later on Sept. 15 Peter Smith's house was burned down, but there wasn't enough evidence to arrest Gilbert Jr. When Gilbert Jr. was arrested in his apartment the police also found 21 blank credit cards and a skimming device that swipes credit and debit-card information when affixed to an ATM. Gilbert is will likely be convicted with 2nd degree murder which is 25 years in prison, he was charged with 22 counts of possession of forgery devices and 2 counts of illegal weapon possession.
I find this a big waste of life, and I feel sorry for Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s mother. This guy had an education and a lot of opportunities to try and be productive in life yet he wasted all away and didn't even try. He never had a job, ripped people off, used his father's money and just plain didn't do anything productive with his life. He could have interned in college, earned money somehow, but was probably too lazy and stupid to in the end because his father paid for it all. He shouldn't even be allowed an expensive apartment in the first place, he should have been forced to live with his parents until he found a job and moved out. I don't see how giving an adult a free luxury apartment and an allowance is good parenting, his father should have never had to pay for his apartment in the first place. He was spoiled, and looked down upon by his father and eventually gained mental problems from it. He was trapped by the lifestyle he was given, and never learned how to fend for himself, it must have made him crazy so he killed his dad with probably the same exact money he got for his allowance instead of going to therapy. It's Ironic, despite Thomas Gilbert Jr.'s family being nice, being too nice with money ruined their lives, life isn't nice like that. It's impossible to be spoiled without being corrupt. Hope he’s regretting what he did.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2015-01-05/wainscott-founder-gilbert-s-son-charged-in-murder-of-father.html
http://www.people.com/article/hedge-fund-founder-thomas-gilbert-murder-son-charged
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