Murder Mayhem Brings Death to West Side & Hell’s Kitchen

Mayhem brought death by murder to two men in two separate incidents, only blocks apart, on Twelfth Avenue and in Hell’s Kitchen recently. One slaying was by gun outside a nightclub on Twelfth Avenue, the other by stabbing in Hell’s Kitchen not far from Times Square. Details are as follows:

At about 1:08 a.m. on Monday, Nov. 24, NYPD responded to an assault in progress at the intersection of West 49th Street and Seventh Avenue, within the confines of the Midtown North Precinct.

When cops arrived, officers saw a male victim, later identified as Daevon Silva, 23, of 85 Carpenter St., Pawtucket, R.I., with stab wounds to the back and a stab wound to the right thigh.

Silva was taken by EMS to Bellevue Hospital, where he subsequently died from his injuries,

Police are searching for three men who ran south on Seventh Avenue after the attack. Cops believe one of the suspects had hit Silva with a baseball bat before he was stabbed.

The descriptions of the suspects are sparse: one in a purple sweater and black ski mask; one in a black jacket, dark pants and brown boots; and another wearing all black.

It’s believed that Silva and at least one of the suspects knew each other and that a dispute between them turned deadly.

According to a family memorial page, the victim’s formal name was Daevon Miguel Silva.

In August 2022, Silva, then 19, and a 23-year-old accomplice were arrested in Pawtucket in connection with a stolen car and possession of a ghost gun. It’s unclear how that case was resolved.

Brooklyn Dad Shot Outside Hell’s Kitchen Nightclub

Gibson Winters, a 39-year-old father of two daughters from Crown Heights, Brooklyn, was shot and killed on Nov. 30, in an unexplained altercation near the Harbor Nightclub on West 46th Street near Twelfth Avenue, in the confines of the Midtown North Precinct.

A prior, non-fatal robbery and shooting occurred near this exact spot this past July 19.

According to the NYPD, cops responded to a 911 call at around 4:13 a.m. to reports of gunfire outside the Harbor NYC. The male victim, later identified as Winters, was found with gunshot wounds to the back and groin and taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was pronounced dead.

By morning, police investigators had taped off a section of West Side Highway sidewalk between West 46th and West 47th streets outside the former carwash and cult-favorite donut shop Underwest that operated within it.

Gibson, an aspiring rapper, was released from federal prison three years ago, having been indicted in a cocaine-dealing conspiracy as a member of the Rollin 60 Crips gang, his lawyer, Camille Russell, told the Daily News. He was released in October 2022.

“From the moment I met him, I knew he had a tremendous bond with his two daughters,” said Russell, who represented him in that case. “That’s pretty much the only thing he talked about, getting back to them. . . . He was always a hands-on father, picking them up from school, taking them to school. He was very involved in their day-to-day.”

Winters’s family, she said, is “devastated.”