Victim wants to ask her assailant: "Why?"

Bethany Storro from Washington had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said:

"Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"

The woman then splashed acid in the cup on her.

Storro stumbled in pain and fell to the ground screaming. She felt agonizing pain as the skin on her face bubbled and sizzled and portions of her blouse disintegrated.

"It was the most painful thing ever," Storro, 28, said this week.

"My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin."

Her mother said Storro had been getting something out of her car before heading into a Starbucks coffee shop when the woman approached her with the cup.

Police are seeking the woman in the Monday attack. Storro told police the attacker was a black woman with slicked-back hair in a ponytail, wearing a green top and khaki pants.

"I have never, ever seen this girl in my entire life," Storro said.

"When I first saw her, she had this weirdness about her - like jealousy, rage."

After the attack, the woman ran off.

A passer-by called police using Storro's cellphone.

Dr. Nick Eshraghi, a burn surgeon who operated on Storro, said it was an acid as strong as hydrochloric or sulfuric acid.

Storro said she wanted to find her assailant and ask: "Why?"

Ref: msnbc