Thomas Gilbert, 70, founder of the Wainscott Capital Partners Fund, was found shot once in the head Sunday afternoon in the bedroom of his Manhattan apartment, police said.
His son was taken into custody and questioned, and he was arrested on charges of homicide and criminal possession of a weapon on Monday, according to New York Chief of Detectives Robert Boyce.
The son was identified as 30-year-old Thomas Gilbert Jr.
The younger Gilbert had visited his parents on Sunday, when he asked his mother to leave the apartment so he could speak privately with his father, Boyce said at a news conference.
When the mother returned, she found her husband shot in the head, with a gun resting on his chest covered by his left hand, Boyce said.
Detectives called to the apartment determined it was a “staged crime scene,” he said.
“The gun laying where it was, it didn’t seem it was a self-inflicted wound,” he said.