Shortly after he boarded one of the route taxis at the Portia Simpson Miller Square in St. Andrew, Monday night, 28-year-old musician, Kevin Williams was attacked by a lone gunman.

Williams, who is from a Waterford address in St. Catherine, was sitting in the back seat of the car. He was shot several times and pronounced dead at hospital. The driver of the car, along with two other passengers, were shot and injured.

"One of the women has been hospitalised in serious condition," Deputy Superintendent Michael Hugh Phipps, Crime Officer for St. Andrew South, said yesterday.

While the police have picked up six 9-mm spent shells from the scene, the motive for the attack in unknown. The police suspect that Williams was in the process of visiting a female friend in Seaview Gardens when he was attacked.

According to one resident of Seaview Gardens, it appeared as if Williams spotted his killer in the Portia Simpson Miller Square and, in an attempt to escape, boarded the taxi, which was enroute to Seaview Gardens. But the taxi was attacked. The impact of the bullets shattered the back windscreen of the Nissan station wagon. The seat and side windows were also damaged.