IT was like a scene from a movie as a woman shook uncontrollably before throwing herself to the ground and letting out a loud wail.

".Dem kill 'Rudie'. Lord God, dem kill Rudie," the woman hollered.

The sight of her colleague's body lying on the asphalt in front of the York Plaza on Hagley Park Road in Kingston with gunshot wounds to the head was too much for the woman, identified only as 'Stacy', to bear and she had to be taken away from the scene by a female police sergeant, with assistance from members of the public.

Police identified 'Rudie' as 25-year-old cosmetologist, Sushania Young, of Jacks Hill in St Andrew. 'Stacy', police said, was employed by Young.

Young was attacked and murdered during a brazen daylight attack inside the busy plaza minutes after 11 yesterday morning. The incident drew scores of onlookers many of whom had witnessed the attack, and caused a pile-up of traffic in the usually busy Half-Way-Tree.

Police yesterday reported that Young, who operated a hairdressing parlour at the nearby Central Plaza, located off the Constant Spring Road, went to do business at Clock Tower Plaza when she received a phone call. The police reported that Young drove over to the York Plaza where she allegedly met with a man.

"It was like a movie on cable. Him and her stand up a talk then all of a sudden him pull a gun and she took off. The gunman run her down and fire about nine shots. Some a dem miss cause a when she run inna the street she trip and him go over her and shot her two time inna her head," said a man who claimed he had witnessed the incident.

Another man said Young was overheard shouting, "A whe me do? Whe you a go kill me fah?"
Young's body was bare-footed as crime scene investigators c****ed the scene for clues.

"She run out of her shoes when she see death a face her," one woman said.

The brazen attack caused a mini-stampede as persons doing business at the plaza scampered for cover. At least one store had its glass damaged from the gunman's bullets. No other person was hurt during the incident.

"The boy cold. Him kill the woman like that in broad daylight and when him done him run go down Hagley Park Road," the alleged eyewitness said.

The sight of Young's body, spread-eagled in the afternoon sun, was too much for her employees and some of her customers who were among the large crowd to converge on the death scene.

"We don't know of her and anybody involve inna no mix up so this is a shock. Rudie was a trying girl who build her business from scratch. I can bet the man who do this has never even tried to contribute nothing positive to society," said one woman, tears streaming down her face.

Other persons in the crowd cursed the woman's killer and openly wished that he met an unkind end.

"The man kill a sweet girl like that and want to walk free and enjoy life. I hope the police find him and kill him like a dog," one woman said.

"Death too good fi him. Blind him and cut him heel string. Him fi suffer till him wither away and dead," one man said