{"id":55933,"date":"2025-11-30T00:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55933\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T00:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T00:31:15","slug":"fundraiser-launched-for-wife-of-ct-man-alleged-killed-by-brother-in-ny-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/55933\/","title":{"rendered":"Fundraiser launched for wife of CT man alleged killed by brother in NY"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark B. Thompson, 70, died along with his brother, David E. Thompson, 69, of Port Charlotte, Fla., after being shot with a rifle by their brother, Scot D. Thompson, 65, of Englewood, Fla., on Nov. 23, according to New York State Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Scot Thompson is charged with two counts of second-degree murder and two counts of first-degree criminal use of a firearm, <a href=\"https:\/\/troopers.ny.gov\/news\/double-homicide-town-allen\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to a news release.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The GoFundMe was set up to support Mark\u00a0Thompson&#8217;s wife, Gail, for expenses following her husband&#8217;s killing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mark was a devoted husband, father, grandfather, and great-grandfather whose loss has devastated our family,&#8221; wrote Nicole Thompson, the daughter-in-law of Mark and Gail Thompson, on the\u00a0GoFundMe page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As of noon Saturday, more than $6,500 had been raised, with a goal of $20,000, according to the page.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The brothers&#8217; killings remain under investigation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined the three brothers were staying at a hunting cabin when they got into a fight and one of the brothers called 911, police said. Scot Thompson then shot and killed his two brothers with a rifle and left the scene in David Thompson\u2019s vehicle, according to police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Law enforcement shared the vehicle information, leading to the Livingston County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Geneseo Police Department finding the vehicle and taking Scot Thompson into custody, police said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mark B. Thompson, 70, died along with his brother, David E. Thompson, 69, of Port Charlotte, Fla., after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55711,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,12485,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-55933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-ct-insider","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}