London cab driver beaten to death

‘SENSELESS’ KILLING

Vijay Bhatia said. Bhatia had taken them to a location in Oakridge and then to Mac’s, Kukurudziak said.

“The guy got into Vijay’s face, I don’t know why.”

Serenity Lane lives across the street in an apartment at 924 Wonderland Rd. and was looking out her window when she Bhatia being attacked.

“I watched a guy get pulled out of his cab and (beaten) to death.”

Lane, who has lived in the apartment for about a year, said she was about to go to the convenience store when she looked out her window.

“It was horrible, I feel disgusted by what I saw.”

Taylor Neilson, a friend of Lane’s, was in the apartment with her when the attack occurred.

“I was on the couch and I heard something. I said, ‘What’s going on?’ I could hear the screaming even though the windows were closed,” she said.

“When this happened it is a shock, it is so close,” she said, adding Westmount is usually a peaceful, quiet neighbourhood.

Lane said she and Neilson watched as the man who attacked Bhatia ran away and entered the apartment building at 924 Wonderland Rd.

“We saw him run across the street, a lot of people saw him,” Lane said.

Leila Kadoruy has worked at The Baron, a hair salon next to the Mac’s, for 12 years.

She said she wasn’t surprised to see police caution tape and a police cruiser at the strip mall when she arrived Saturday morning for work.

“I see a lot of things like this going on here,” Kadoruy said. “People have been attacked, the store has been robbed.”

She said she has been afraid to work late at the salon and feared for her safety when she did.