The 30-year-old man accused of killing his wealthy father last Sunday was in court last night. Thomas "Tommy" Gilbert Jr. was indicted in hedge fund founder Thomas Gilbert Sr.'s death.
On the night of the Gilbert Sr.'s death, Gilbert had gone to his father's Beekman Place apartment and allegedly got his mother to leave by asking that she buy him a sandwich. When she returned, she found her husband dead, with a gun posed in his left hand: "Laying where it was didn’t seem like a self-inflicted wound as we’ve had in the past," said NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
Police found Gilbert in his West 18th Street apartment, with a gun casing for the alleged murder weapon. The Princeton graduate was apparently upset about having his allowance cut from $400 a week to $100 a week. This was in addition to his parents supposedly threatening to stop paying the $2,400/month rent on his apartment.
At the hearing, Gilbert's lawyer said, "This is obviously a tragic circumstance and we’re not in a position to move forward at this point with a bail application."
Gilbert is currently being held without bail. He's been described as a "gorgeous loner" who just worked out and surfed in the Hamptons. He's also a "person of interest" in an arson incident that gutted a historic home in the Hamptons; the home was owned by a person who had a restraining order against Gilbert.
