A thirty year old Princeton graduate Thomas Gilbert Jr. had life with money and parents always taking care of him while his wealthy Hedge Fund manager father, Thomas Gilbert Sr. had enough of spending $3,100 of rent for his son’s Chelsea apartment each month along with a $400 allowance for spending money. Now dropping the rent and decreasing the allowance only to $100-$200. The son who wasn’t used to this kind of treatment ‘snapped’ and killed his own father. Usually young men have a better tolerance over their anger, “this isn’t like him” people close to him have said. But clearly actions speak louder than words.

Thomas Gilbert Sr was a healthy 70-year old man who worked as a founder of Wainscott Capital Partners. He was found dead  at 3:30 pm on Sunday January 4th by his wife Shelly age 67. Gilbert Jr attempted to make his murder look like a suicide by placing the weapon on his chest. Father and son were discussing the ‘differences in their relationship’ when soon after, the low tempered son shot his father. Gilbert Sr attended Princeton and Harvard Business School before a 40-year career on Wall Street. Gilbert Jr attended The Buckley School in Manhattan Upper East Side from kindergarten until eighth grade, tuition of $35,000 a year. Then soon after he went on to the $50,000 a year Deerfield Academy in Western Massachusetts.  After graduating Deerfield in 2003, he took his college experience and graduated from Princeton University in 2009.

Everyone who knew Gilbert Jr seemed to love him, he was a great looking guy and was excelled in his academics, people seemed to say ‘he was a good kid’. Even his ex-girlfriend Anna Rothschild stated how “he talked a lot about his dad and how mean he was to him and how nothing was ever good enough” Gilbert Jr. always said his father ‘hypercritical toward him.’ When asked, sophomore Jillian Galovic’s reaction towards someone killing their own family over losing money she said “I think it’s ridiculous because family should be more important than most things especially money.” But soon after Galovic was asked if she thought there was something wrong with him other than just losing this money? She replied with “most likely something mentally not right with him, but since he was such a good person beforehand no one thought to take him to be diagnosed for anything.” Another person who graduated along with Gilbert Jr stated that “Gilbert Jr was a highly disturbed individual” Another friend replied that Gilbert Jr had “become volatile in recent years.”

Gilbert Sr. will forever be missed by many and will never be forgotten. “I can’t believe a son would do this, how can a son kill his own father?” asked a tearful Charlie Suk, the owner of Sutton Place Cleaners.   “He was a good person — a special person” Suk said of Gilbert a Wall St. whiz founder of who also graduated from Princeton and Harvard Business School. How would you react toward losing money from your father? Or would you even still be living off your family at 30 years old? It’s these questions that are unthinkable that are being asked of the harsh acts of violence.