Henry McGowan, who grew up in Greenwich, Conn., and graduated from the University of Virginia, had worked for Affirm, a technology software company. He had been living in Brooklyn Heights with a girlfriend, according to a neighbor who was reached by phone. The neighbor expressed shock that Mr. McGowan had been accused of killing his father.

A man has been charged with murder after a man died at a five-star Irish hotel. Henry McGowan, 30, from Clinton street, Brooklyn in New York appeared in Portlaoise District Court on Thursday. He was charged after 60 year old John McGowan,