--- description: Thomas Gilbert, Sr. founded a $200-million hedge fund title: Son Questioned After Hedge Fund Founder Fatally Shot image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Son Questioned After Hedge Fund Founder Fatally Shot by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2015 2:17 PM CUT by [Sam Frizell](/author/sam-frizell/) ## Sam Frizell Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jan 5, 2015 2:17 PM CUT A Wall Street financier who founded a $200-million hedge fund was [found dead Sunday in his upscale New York City apartment](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/hedge-fund-founder-shot-dead-son-police-source-article-1.2065572 "undefined") after a fatal shooting, police said. Seventy-year-old Thomas Gilbert Sr., the founder and chief investment officer of Wainscott Capital Partners, was shot at his multimillion-dollar apartment on the East Side of Manhattan, allegedly during an argument with his son. He was killed by a single shot to the head, police said. His 30-year-old son, Thomas Gilbert Jr., was taken into custody for questioning, the New York _Daily News_ reports. The younger Gilbert has yet to comment publicly. Wainscott Capital Partners has about $200 million in assets and focuses on the biotech and health care industries. Gilbert previously co-founded Syzygy Therapeutics, a private equity fund focused on the biotech industry. Gilbert’s is the first homicide in the tony Sutton Place neighborhood on Manhattan’s Upper East Side since January 2006. \[[_New York Daily News_](http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/hedge-fund-founder-shot-dead-son-police-source-article-1.2065572 "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3653443/thomas-gilbert-murder/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3653443/thomas-gilbert-murder/"},"headline":"Son Questioned After Hedge Fund Founder Fatally Shot","datePublished":"2015-01-05T14:17:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:16:14.339Z","description":"Shooting reportedly happened during an argument between the two","url":"https://time.com/3653443/thomas-gilbert-murder/","keywords":["Crime"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Sam Frizell","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/sam-frizell/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3653443/thomas-gilbert-murder/","name":"Son Questioned After Hedge Fund Founder Fatally Shot"}}]}] ```