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Murder trial ordered for woman accused in Kraft plant shootings
POSTED : December 08 , 2010
Yvonne Hiller was certain she was being targeted for surreptitious "chemical abuse , " but no one believed her story .
She accused her coworkers of spraying her with deer urine , prompting her to complain to a federal safety agency .
She thought her Lawncrest neighbors were running a meth lab , and she called police to her apartment numerous times "for the smell . "
She believed that chemicals were ruining her health , and had visited several doctors and counselors since 2007 .
Despite all that , she couldn't find the source of the toxins she thought were plaguing her .
Hiller told homicide detectives that her mounting frustration finally culminated in September , when she went on a shooting rampage through the Kraft Foods plant in Northeast Philadelphia , where she had worked for 15 years .
In her statement , Hiller admitted killing two coworkers and seriously wounding a <m> third </m> .
Homicide Detective Dominic Mangoni , testifying Tuesday at Hiller's preliminary hearing , said he asked how she felt just hours after the shootings .
"I don't feel anything , " she said , according to the statement .
"I just wish people would accept me for what I was . "
After the hearing , Hiller , 43 , was ordered held on multiple counts of murder , attempted murder , and other crimes .
An arraignment was scheduled for this month .
The defense did not call any witnesses .
Hiller entered the courtroom wearing a black garment and black head scarf .
She waved and winked at a clutch of family members in the gallery .
The other side of the room was packed with family members of the victims - LaTonya Brown , 36 , and Tanya Wilson , 47 , both of whom died in the third - floor break room where they were shot .
The third victim , Bryant Dalton , 39 , spent two weeks in the hospital and is recovering from gunshots to the neck and shoulder , prosecutors said .
After the hearing , Dorothy Brown said she was "heartbroken" over the death of her granddaughter , who had four children .
"She left them children , " she said , breaking into tears .
"She was a beautiful person , too . "
Stephen Devine , a civil attorney for the Brown family , said relatives would hold a vigil Thursday at their home at 11th and Poplar Streets to mark the three - month anniversary of the shooting .
Wilson's family and Dalton also are represented by civil attorneys , but Devine said it was too soon to say if they would file a lawsuit .
At the preliminary hearing , the families "heard for the first time some answers to questions they had since the tragic events occurred , " Devine said .
Hiller worked with the three victims in the mixing department at the plant at Roosevelt Boulevard and Byberry Road .
Kraft makes Ritz crackers , Lorna Doone cookies , and other baked goods there .
On the night of the shooting , Hiller again confronted her coworkers about her belief that they were spraying her with deer scent .
"They told me they didn't know what I was talking about , " Hiller said in her statement .
"I told them , 'You think this is a prank , but you don't know what this was doing to my body . ' "
After the confrontation , Hiller was suspended from her job for the second time in two months .
The other suspension came after she left a voice mail on her supervisor's phone , complaining about being sprayed .
Hiller was escorted from the property .
She told detectives that she "planned on going right home . "
"But then I started to think about the 15 years I spent there and how it was taken away from me , " she said in her statement .
She returned with a . 357 Magnum that she legally owned and kept under the seat of her car .
She pointed the gun at two unarmed security guards and ordered them to let her back in the building .
She said she sought out the three coworkers from her shift and opened fire .
Hiller admitted firing at several other employees , but denied shooting at the first officers who responded to the scene .
But Officer Michael Murphy , from the Seventh District , testified that Hiller fired at him and two other officers from down a hallway .
The bullet , he said , went over his left shoulder and hit the wall behind him .
After shutting herself in a quality control room on the second floor , Hiller made a number of phone calls to relatives and police .
A 911 supervisor persuaded her to surrender to SWAT officers on the scene .