Crazed lover kills mother of three in Bronx, one of four homicides in city

BY Kate Nocera, Matthew Lysiak, Ben Chapman and John Lauinger
DAILY NEWS WRITERS

Saturday, June 26th 2010, 2:28 PM

Two weeks ago, a Bronx woman e-mailed a photo of her boyfriend to her daughter.

She told her that if anything happened to her, the man in the photo would be the one responsible.

The dark prophecy appeared to come true Saturday after Anna Silva's boyfriend was charged with stabbing her to death.

"He knew my mom wanted to leave him. That's why he killed her," a devastated Sirena Frias, 18, said. "He was very jealous."

Silva, 40, threw a birthday party for her 1-year-old grandson on Friday night. The boyfriend, Fabian Faulkner, 26, was there. He was smiling and having a good time, witnesses said.

After the party, the couple began to argue and things quickly turned violent. Silva, a mother of three, tried to get away - even pushing the air-conditioner out of the window, witnesses said.

"He barricaded her into the room and wouldn't open the door," Frias said.

Her attacker cornered her and stabbed her to death. Then he called 911. Just after midnight, police found Faulkner inside the bedroom of Silva's second-floor Soundview apartment. They also found a knife.

Over the next 2-1/2 hours, three more people would be murdered in Brooklyn - two in Bushwick and one in Bedford-Stuyvesant.

Aleisha Thompson, 22, was on a pay phone, possibly calling 911, when she was shot several times outside a deli at Hancock St. and Bushwick Ave. Thompson, who lived down the street from where she was shot, died at Woodhull Hospital shortly after the 1:17 a.m. attack. Police haven't made an arrest.

At 2:39 a.m., cops raced to Halsey St. and Wilson Ave. and found ZacuranHorton, 32, dead of a gunshot wound to his back. No one was arrested in that shooting.

Six minutes later, Kevin Grandison, a 26-year-old construction worker, was stabbed to death outside a bodega on Malcolm X Blvd. at Halsey St. The Bedford-Stuyvesant murder nearly erupted into more violence after a crowd of more than 20 people gathered outside the home of a man they believed to be the killer.

"A crowd formed because they wanted justice," said the victim's brother-in-law, Ivan Sanks, 31. "Then about 20 cops showed up with their batons and made us go around the corner."

Police later arrested Glen King, 34, a resident of the home witnesses swarmed.

NYPD stats through June 20 - the most recent data available - show murders on the rise citywide. There have been 208 murders this year, a 7.2% increase from 194 during the same time period last year.

From: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/06/26/2010-06-26_crazed_lover_kills_mother_of_three_in_bronx_one_of_four_homicides_in_city.html