THE MURDER Wednesday night of an employee of the Jamaica Bureau of Standards (JBS), 6 Winchester Road, Kingston 10, plunged the bureau into mourning yesterday.
Sharon Campbell, 39, standardisation inspector, was shot dead by gunmen at Tewfix Drive, Ziadie Gardens, St. Andrew.
Police reports are that about 7:25, Miss Campbell drove her car to a house on Tewfix Drive and while she was getting out, she was accosted by two men. She struggled with them and they shot her in the head. The men got into a car and sped away.
Ms. Campbell, who is from Samuel Prospect district, Duncans, Trelawny, had been working with the JBS since 1999.
"I got a call from my executive director some minutes to 7:00 and along with the HR manager, we went to the scene of the crime to identify the body," said Norman Hall, the Bureau's information manager.
He said none of them had any idea why anyone would want to murder Ms. Campbell. "We here are not in a position to impute any kind of motive," Hall said.
She was like a light in her office, a "sunshiny personality", he said. "The mood here is very gloomy. We are still stunned and depressed. The sense of loss is almost unbearable.
"She was highly respected, well-loved and hard-working. You could always call on Sharon to do more than her normal share of work. We miss her dearly."
"I couldn't believe it!" said a co-worker, who learnt of Ms. Campbell's death on her way to work yesterday morning. "It was very shocking."
The Half-Way Tree Criminal Investigation Branch said it had not established a motive for the murder up to press time last night.
