Desiree Winfield

Death by Force

On February 3, 1983, 12-year-old Desiree Winfield, a female, was shot and killed inside the Hotel Belleclaire on Manhattan’s Upper West Side during a predawn shooting spree that claimed four lives in the building and wounded another person. Contemporary reports identify the scene as a three-room apartment on the hotel’s seventh floor, where shots were fired around 4:30 a.m. The victims reported alongside the 12-year-old girl include Christine Leacock, 25; David Williams, 50; and Jacob Zimm ...Read More