Shelley immediately called 911,telling the dispatcherher husband had been shot in the head,andthatshe thought he was dead. ', The court room heard the 911 call wife and mother Shelley Gilbert made when she found her husband lying in a pool of blood. In 11th grade, he did AP Calculus, and in 12th grade Calculus 2. Tommywas arrested and charged with homicide and criminal possession of a weapon,reportedReutersin 2015. The senior Mr. Gilbert, who was 70, was a midlevel financier working punishing hours to get his small hedge fund off the ground. Gilbert F. Casellas, chairman, EEOC and General Counsel of the Air Force; Walter Joseph "Jay" Clayton III (Penn Law Class of 1993), chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, May 4, 2017 through December 23, 2020; Josiah E. DuBois Jr., U.S. State Department official, instrumental in Holocaust rescue Prosecutors contended thatthe final straw was whenThomasreduced his sons weekly allowance to $300on the morning of the murder, according toThe Washington Post. InterviewingTommys social circle, detectives learned hewas a person of interest in a2014 arsonthatoccurred in the Hamptons, but no charges were ever filed against him. Thomas Gilbert Jr., seen here in 2001, loved to surf. To be legally competent, a defendant must be able to understand the charges against him as well as courtroom procedure and effectively participate in his own defense. He studied Chinese for three years. He hit his head repeatedly on the sidewalk and broke his nose. He is strikingly handsome; tall, with tousled blond hair and the gym-fit body of the keen surfer that he was. Sign up forOxygen Insiderfor all the best true crime content. It was a far different impression than the one he had left on friends and Maidstone Club members just two summers ago. His mother Shelley felt helpless in the face of her son's mental issues. Thats terrific.. July 20, 2021 By John Glatt VIA ST. MARTIN'S PRESS It was a routine Sunday afternoon for Thomas Gilbert Sr., the founder of a multimillion-dollar hedge fund and a longtime fixture on Wall Street. Data collected by Gilbert and others raised awareness of the regional variation in the causes and magnitude of blindness in children, and control became one of the priorities of the global strategy of WHO and the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness to eliminate avoidable blindness, VISION 2020 the Right to Sight. The Gilbert family seemed to have it all. Mr. Gilbert, the father, had a weekend home in East Hamptons exclusive Georgica Association enclave, and he was the sole owner of his newly established hedge fund, Wainscott Capital Partners, named after another Hamptons neighborhood. Time Zone. But in the time since Gilbert Sr's death another version of his son's life - one less golden than this superficial prcis - has emerged. Gregarious and gentlemanly, he was a longtime member of the. Tommy grew increasingly estranged from his family, especially his father, whom heemailedin late 2013, The more you respect my space, the more I will appreciateyou!". (September 2021) Clare Gilbert is a professor and a researcher who focuses on blindness in children based at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The Gilberts had money, of course. At the same time, the younger Mr. Gilbert, who had long harbored his own dream of setting up a hedge fund (he had even given it a name: Mameluke Capital), found himself struggling to keep up with his well-pedigreed peers who had begun ascending the ranks of Wall Street and Manhattan society. I cant even wrap my head around it., Reporting by DIANE HERBST and CAITLIN KEATING. But I didnt know he wasthis nuts, according toNBC News. The comments below have not been moderated, By It is one of financial and social failure, of mental fragility and of an escalation of violence that derailed what might have been and left in its stead a grand house razed to the ground, a man with a bullet in his head and his son languishing in a cell on Riker's Island. Police believe it was a clumsy attempt on Gilbert Jr's part to stage his father's suicide. But this could not stop him obtaining the murder weapon illegally through the Web. He was arrested just hours after fleeing his parents place on Beekman Place, a prestigious block on the far east side of Manhattan, to his own apartment on West 18th Street in Chelsea, where his father was paying the $2,400 monthly rent. Under the current mental-health system he was able to discharge himself after 72 hours and could not be held any longer. In examining his computer, they found he had searched for websites like "Hire-a-Killer.com" and "Find-a-Hitman.com" in the months before his fathers murder, according toCNN. I know if my husband was speaking from heaven, he would be saying the same thing as well.. Anyone can go to the law library and copy things out without knowing that they mean.'. She was the first to describe ROP occurring in low and middle-income countries and described the 3rd epidemic of ROP blindness. ', Thomas Gilbert Sr was a wealthy New York hedge fund boss who was shot in the head after an argument with his son. He certainly wasnt raging around New York City like a maniac. Shelly Gilbert has attended almost every one of her son's 75-plus court appearances since . When detectives with the New York City Police Department arrived, Shelley told them her son had a long history of mental illness. This story has been shared 102,289 times. As his professional ambitions floundered, Tommy spent his free time in the Hamptons, surfing, partying,and dating socialites. A senior police investigator, who was unauthorized to speak publicly about the case, described the younger Mr. Gilbert as being upset with his father for cutting back on his allowance, said to be around $600 a week. Defense lawyer Levine argued that Gilbert suffered from schizophrenia and other mental disorders and that it was psychosis and paranoia, not greed, that drove him to murder. To nudge his son toward self-sufficiency, the elder Gilbert tried to wean him off his allowance and made what would be the last in a series of reductions the morning of the murder. He was always a rational thinker. Bloomberg via Getty Images More. Defendant has no criminal record, strong family ties and good behavior while incarcerated. [1] In 2002 the group moved to the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Its bad enough having a mentally ill child on your hands, Shelley told me. It convinced no one. He is quiet. Police found gasoline-doused rags on the ground where the man had stood apparently watching the house burn. 'In senior year, he took AP biology. Shelley was the prosecutions reluctant star witness, testifying against her son after she was subpoenaed. She was so concerned that she referred it to Dr. Michael Sacks, the professor of psychiatry at the Weill Cornell Medical College, who had been treating Tommy for many years for an array of mental conditions. Smith Jr was granted a restraining order. Despite his Princeton degree and talk of business ventures, the truth is that Gilbert Jr. had spectacularly failed to launch. And the question was more or less the same: A good man had died, and no one knew why. 'We tried to get him into a hospital outside of Boston and he did spend one night in hospital in Charleston, the psychiatric division of the hospital.'. Id run into him on the street in New York from time to time it was always a pleasure to see him.. Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, "Dr. Clare E. 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He went to Charleston to go surfing. Before Shelley gave her statement, prosecutors noted to the judge that the law said victims who are family of the killers are supposed to speak only in support of the victim. The greatest spectator sport was participating with Shelley using what I remembered of the Le Mas technique while she deftly delivered Tommy, and six years later, Clare, he wrote. The 911 call reveals Shelley told the dispatcher it was her son who killed her husband, giving police his address and a detailed description. Althoughhis father wanted him to come work for him, Tommy had other ideas. Ultimately Smith Jr asked his friend to move out. 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Mrs. Gilbert spoke about how her son's mental health deteriorated when he was in the 11th grade and how one symptom of his OCD was that he became obsessed with 'contamination'. When Gilbert was arrested in 2015 (left) he was a strapping and handsome young man - a stark contrast to the frail and thin man who appeared four years later in court Tuesday (right). Gilbert is a technical/scientific advisor to a number of organisations, including the World Health Organization; USAID's Child Blindness Program; the International Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Council; the School Eye Health Rapid Assessment project, USAID; iHOPE, Welcome Trust, India; Velux Stiftung, Switzerland; and the Vision Impact Institute. A jury convicted the pampered Ivy-leaguer of second-degree murder and weapons charges for blasting his dad, Thomas Gilbert Sr., in the head on Jan. 4, 2015. Someone suffering from serious mental-health illness can still be declared fit for trial. He loved it.'. Yangon was Myanmar's administrative capital before Nay Pyi Taw was named as the capital city. He was on some sort of medication during his days at Princeton. ', Mrs Gilbert described other aspects of his condition. She is a member of the Editorial Committee for the Community Eye Health Journal and contributed to the development of a Massive Online Open Access Course on ROP. Thomas Gilbert, 70, th Harvard-educated founder nd chief investment officer f Wainscott Capital Partners, w shot in th head b hi n during n argument in th dad's bedroom rund 3:30 p.m., sources said.