 Mr Landell leaves a wife and three-year-old daughter |
The sister of a man stabbed to death during a weekend of knife attacks in Manchester has urged the public to help find the "coward" who killed him. Davon Landell, 24, was stabbed to death in the Moss Side Community Centre in the early hours of Saturday.
No arrests have been made and police and his close-knit family are urging anyone with information about the attack to come forward.
Greater Manchester Police has said the murder was not gang-related.
Det Insp Brian King said: "The question asked is always is it gang related and I think Manchester has an undeserved reputation for that type of thing."
He added that he thought it was an isolated incident where two groups of people, who did know each other, met up and a fight developed.
Mr Landell was one of three men stabbed to death in the region at the weekend.
 |  He wasn't a violent person, yet his life was taken away by someone who is such a coward |
In a statement, Mr Landell's sister, Norma Grant, said: "My brother Davon was such a calm, loving, caring, person.
"He was very quiet, and he hardly spoke. He wasn't a violent person, yet his life was taken away by someone who is such a coward.
"I loved my brother dearly. I would like the killer to be caught and brought to justice and I would ask anybody who knows who killed by brother to come forward and speak to police."
Mr Landell leaves a wife, Jameela, and three-year-old daughter Surriyah, and a large family in Manchester.
In a tribute, Mrs Landell said: "You are in our thoughts and prayers daily.
 Mr Landell was attacked at Moss Side Community Centre |
"May God bless you and lay you to rest peacefully, and bless your memory."
Separately, police have been given extra time to question two men, aged 19 and 20, about the fatal stabbing of Kevin Platt in Farnworth.
The 30-year-old, from Kearsley, was found in Church Road on Friday night and later died in hospital.
Another man, 22-year-old Stephen Parkin, from Hyde, was stabbed to death outside the Premier Lodge on Stockport Road, Hattersley, in the early hours of Saturday.
Seven people were arrested, aged between 17 and 25, and questioned on suspicion of his murder but later released on bail pending further inquiries.
Ass Ch Con Ian Seabridge, of Greater Manchester Police, said the incidents highlighted the "devastating" nature of knives.
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