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Lurid History Emerges as Lawyers Argue Mental Competence of Son Accused of Murdering Hedge Fund-Manager Father
Prosecutors allege that, in January, Thomas Gilbert shot and killed his hedge-fund manager father—reportedly over a drop in his allowance—and tried to make it look like a suicide. At a hearing in State Supreme Court this month, his defense argued that Gilbert is not fit to stand trial. In September, the New York Times reports, after reviewing medical records, two court-appointed psychiatrists determined that Gilbert was too mentally ill to stand trial. “He suffers from a disorder that I would characterize as psychotic,” one of the psychiatrists, Dr. Daniel Mundy, testified. “I would be treating him with an ... (full story)