Manhattan Man Murders Father Over Lowered Allowance

SMH!!

Manhattan Man Murders Father Over Lowered Allowance

A spoiled NYC heir has murdered his father inside his parents’ Manhattan home…all in anger over his weekly allowance being lowered to $300.00. Via NYDN:

A wealthy hedge-fund chief was gunned down by his adult son after he threatened to cut his allowance by a $100 a week and stop paying his steep rent, cops said Monday.

Spoiled manchild Thomas Gilbert Jr., 30, flew into a murderous rage when he confronted his fed-up dad, Thomas Gilbert Sr., 70, over the downsizing of financial support, police said.

“He was on a stipend from the family. Looks like he was in debt,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce said of the accused killer.

The freeloading son, a Princeton grad, shot his father once in the head with a .40-caliber Glock 22 handgun Sunday afternoon inside is parents’ multimillion-dollar Beekman Place apartment, police said.

He then callously staged the murder scene to appear as if it was a suicide, placing the gun on his father’s chest and putting the dead man’s left hand over it, Boyce said.

Gilberts parents recently told him they were cutting his $400 a week allowance by $100, a police source said. His parents also informed him they would no longer pay the rent on his apartment in a Chelsea building, where rents average $3,100 a month, the source said.

As it turns out, this may not have been the first murderous tantrum the “spoiled manchild” threw in recent months. As news of the murder broke, neighbors began to suspect that Gilbert was responsible for a mysterious fire in the Hamptons a few months back. Via MailOnline:

Last September 18, Gilbert was arrested for violating an order of protection three days after a Hamptons family home burned to the ground in a case of suspect arson.

Multiple acquaintances of Gilbert Jr, repeated the rumor they had heard that the Princeton grad and Deerfield alumnus was a focus of suspicion when the house burned down.

However, police have never identified Gilbert Jr. as a suspect nor has he been charged in the fire.

In the early hours of September 15 this year, a blaze destroyed the beautiful Hamptons home owned by retired investment banker Peter L. Smith.

According to sources, Peter Smith reportedly filed a restraining order against Gilbert Jr. this summer after an incident near his Williamsburg, Brooklyn home.

SMH! So every time someone pisses this rich brat off, he has to burn some isht down or shoot somebody up?! It’ll be interesting to see what kind of time he gets now that his wealthy father isn’t there to save the day…

Jefferson Siegel / NYDN