Theonia Mantle was brought to tears on Friday when she recalled how her daughter’s plan of owning her business was destroyed by gunmen.

Her daughter, 23-year-old Kimberly Plummer, was one of three people shot dead on August 30, on Mandela Terrace, off Waltham Park Road in St Andrew. The other two victims were identified as Derek Goodgames Jr and Anthony Bennett.

Four other people were said to have been shot and injured by gunmen travelling in a motor vehicle about 8:00 pm at a wake in the community.

“Accounting was always Kimberly’s thing. She wanted to do her own business. She was supposed to open a store for herself in December. She liked to install wigs and she said on the side she would sell the wig dem and sell other cosmetic items in the store too,” Mantle told the
Jamaica Observer on Friday.

Mantle shared that she gets very emotional with each memory of her daughter.

“Every time I try to talk to somebody about it, mi break down. The only thing I can tell you is that candle lighting was on the road,” she said.

“My daughter was in the lane right there. A right off here so the whole happening take place,” she said, pointing to the spot. “After the shooting I ran out and see her on the ground and them seh she dead,” the mother said.

“She worked at Digicel and she had just come in from work. I left her sitting right in the lane. It happened like five minutes after I stepped away from her,” Mantle shared.

She said that as she was walking away, her daughter said to her, ‘Mommy, mi never see when you pass, enuh’.

“I told her I saw her in the lane and I walked go down two gates away and then I heard the explosions. They said it was a van, looking like a Prado. I didn’t see the vehicle. She was 23 years old and all she did was work and come home. She worked at Flow first in the office and then she left that and took on Digicel,” Mantle said.

“She mostly worked from home. One day or two days out of the week she would go to the office to work. That Friday she went to the office to work. She came home and she has a friend in the shop right here and she said she would come and stay with her. She said she wasn’t going to stay on the front. Instead, she stayed in the lane right here on a chair. Even though she was avoiding the front, she still got caught up,” the mother said, describing her daughter as a brilliant young woman who was a past student of Meadowbrook High School and St Peter Claver Primary School.