Murder witness killed in Mountain View gun attack
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November 27, 2014

Murder witness killed in Mountain View gun attack

KINGSTON, Jamaica – A witness to a 2011 murder was shot dead this afternoon in the Mountain View area of east Kingston.

Dead is 52-year-old Rudolph Wildman, an auto body repairman, who was reportedly on the witness protection programme for three years.

Reports reaching OBSERVER ONLINE are that two men on a motor cycle rode up and opened fire at Wildman. Another man, believe to be injured in the attack, later turned up at hospital with gunshot wounds. He was admitted in serious but stable condition.

It is said that Wildman revisited the area of the 2011 murder and was identified by thugs related to the incident.

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