Bianca Warburton, a 24-year-old psychology master's student at Wits University, was shot and killed in a botched hijacking in Alexandra yesterday.
For several hours, her body lay on the road next to her silver Honda Civic outside Alexandra Clinic, where she had worked with mothers and children as an intern under the auspices of the Ububele Umdlezane Parent Infant Project.
Bianca wasn't expected at Alex Clinic yesterday. But she thought she would stop in at the clinic before going to the studios of Alex FM, where she was going to take part in a talkshow on child abuse.
She had just left the clinic and was waiting at the intersection of London Road and 1st Street when two men, one armed, approached her car at about 8.55am.
"A shot was fired and hit her in the lower body and she drove on into London Road, but the car stopped and was found idling. Paramedics tried to resuscitate her, but she was later confirmed dead at the scene," said police spokesman Inspector Moses Maphakela.
"The suspects then fled on foot, empty-handed. One suspect had been identified, and we're hoping to make an arrest soon."
Soon after the incident, Warburton arrived at the scene. Devastated and his face awash with tears, Clifford Warburton knelt next to his wife's motionless body. He extended his hand, touched her face softly and kissed it.
Barely noticing his friends' supportive hands on his shoulders, he repeatedly touched his wife's body, which was covered with a blanket.
Shocked residents stood behind the yellow tape cordoned off by the police as crime scene experts took fingerprints from the car. The driver's side window was shattered from the shooting.
Gallery: Botched hijacking claims young woman's life 13-10-2009
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