Princeton graduate Thomas Gilbert Jr.was sentenced Friday to 30 years to life in prison after shooting and killing his wealthy father in 2015 following a dispute over his weekly allowance.
Gilbert Jr., 35, was convicted three months ago in the killing of his 70-year-oldfather at his parents' home on Manhattan's East Side. The jury rejected the defendant's insanity defense during the trial.
The younger Gilbert was reliant on his parents for basic daily expenses and had been unable to hold down a job, prosecutors said.
He received a weekly $1,000 allowance from his parents — which the defendant spent on travel and other personal expenses. That allowance had been cut prior to the killing.
Gilbert Sr. reduced his son's allowance to $300 hours before the shooting, prosecutors said, according to a CNN report. Gilbert Sr. was the founder and manager of the New York-based Wainscott Capital Partners Fund.
In a victim impact statement, the victim's wife, Shelley Gilbert, asked for Gilbert Jr. "to be given as light a sentence as possible,"according to CNN. She said the family had been seeking medical help for the defendant for years because "he's too sick to be able to judge."
The jury found that Gilbert Jr., who was also convicted on charges of criminal possession of a weapon, murdered his father with a shot to the head at close range. The weapon, a semi-automatic pistol, was purchased months earlier from an Ohio seller.
The defendant put the gun in his father's hand in an attempt to stage the death as a suicide, according to trial testimony.
"Thomas Gilbert Sr. was a beloved member of his family and business community when his own son murdered him in a cold-blooded killing," District Attorney Cyrus Vance said Friday in a statement. "But now, thanks to my office's prosecutors, the defendant has finally been held accountable and he will serve a life sentence for this unconscionable crime."from eu.usatoday.com
Foolish son
ReplyDelete$1,000 dollars a week is equal to N350,000 a week!!!
DeleteCan you imagine the nonsense!
Believe it or not this is the result of poor, spoilt and entitled home bringing..largely by the mother. Women / mothers again I warn us...I have seen it happens loads of times. Make hay while the sun shines...
DeleteThis rubbish can not happen in Nigeria.... US should review this shit that makes citizens possess guns seems its very easy to get one over there
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SMH......
ReplyDeleteAs you kill your Papa, allowance don increase? Spoilt and lazy fool!
ReplyDelete30yrs too small and you the mama wey follow spoil am they yarn excuse for the lazy and wasteful boy. Ode
As you kill your Papa, allowance don increase? Spoilt and lazy fool!
ReplyDelete30yrs too small and you the mama wey follow spoil am they yarn excuse for the lazy and wasteful boy. Ode
Na wa.. After years of sacrifice in trying to raise a child, then he ends us killing the father. God forbid!
ReplyDeleteAh so sad. A Princeton grad, definitely he was of no good. His Dad was probably cutting his allowance so he could change and be responsible . He was probably hooked on the hard substances that's why he desperately needed all that amount. A drug addict would kill or do anything if his source of income to acquire drugs dwindles.
ReplyDeleteWhat a pity.
ReplyDeleteMay we not give birth to children that will kill us.
ReplyDeleteThe saddest part about this is that this dude has a degree from one of the top universities in the country, he would have gotten any job he applied for and make millions of dollars a year himself. To be a white man in the US with an ivy league degree is a guaranteed fast track to wealth and power, plus he is already from a wealthy family so they have deep connections. The poor mother must be losing her mind.
ReplyDeleteIts better to train a child than repair an adult.
ReplyDeleteFaulty parenting is the 'causer'
Wow, a faulty foundation is all I see. He grew up entitled.....parents train your children well please
ReplyDeleteGreed!!!
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