A 39-year-old man was fatally shot before dawn on Sunday in Hell’s Kitchen — the second shooting in the same nightclub corridor in five months.
Police say officers from Midtown North responded around 4:13am to reports of gunfire near W46th Street and 12th Avenue. The man was found with gunshot wounds to the back and groin and taken to Mount Sinai Morningside, where he was pronounced dead. Officials later identified the victim as Gibson Winters, 39, of Schenectady Avenue in Brooklyn.
Initial NYPD information indicated the shooting happened outside Harbor NYC, the nightclub on W46th Street between 11th and 12th Avenues. But by sunrise, the crime scene was taped off along the West Side Highway, near the former carwash between W46th and W47th Streets, suggesting the incident may have unfolded closer to the highway.
Police radio traffic early Sunday reported that a group of around 10-12 people fled the scene in an unknown direction. No arrests have been made, and the investigation remains ongoing.
The area has seen recent violence. In July, a 30-year-old man was shot in the abdomen near 617 W46th Street, steps from the same nightclub. In that case, the victim survived and police searched for a masked suspect dressed in black. No arrests were announced…