Jacob Zimmer, a 61-year-old white male, was the manager of the Hotel Belleclaire, a transient hotel located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. On February 3, 1983, Zimmer was fatally shot in the hotel lobby during a violent rampage carried out by Alban Leacock, a 41-year-old handyman employed at the hotel. The incident unfolded in two separate shooting episodes that left four people dead and two others injured.
Earlier that morning, around 4:30 a.m., Leacock shot and killed his wife Chr
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