Jacob Zimmer, 61, was killed on February 3, 1983, when gunfire erupted at the Hotel Belleclaire on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. The shooting began in a seventh-floor apartment where the suspected gunman, identified as hotel handyman Alban Leacock, lived with his wife; the rampage left four people dead in the building and at least one other woman seriously wounded and taken to Roosevelt Hospital.

Victims named in memorial records for that date include Jacob Zimmer alongside Christine Leacock, Desiree Winfield, and David Williams, indicating Zimmer was one of the four fatalities from the same incident. Contemporary accounts described the Belleclaire as a single-room-occupancy residence where residents and staff lived in close quarters; one surviving staff member, 78-year-old clerk Alex Gittens, later discovered a bullet had been stopped by his wallet.

Court records show the suspected shooter was convicted after a non-jury trial on multiple counts related to the deaths and shootings, and an appeal later challenged parts of the sentencing. Does anyone have memories of the Belleclaire in 1983 or information about Jacob Zimmer’s life in the building?