A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues , then escorted from the building , returned minutes later with a handgun , found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third , police said Friday .
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A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues , then escorted from the building , returned minutes later with a handgun , found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third , police <m> said </m> Friday .
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Kraft Shooting : Yvonne Hiller Charged With Two Counts Of Murder
09 / 10 / 10 08 : 23 PM ET
A Kraft Foods plant worker who had been suspended for feuding with colleagues , then escorted from the building , returned minutes later with a handgun , found her foes in a break room and executed two of them with a single bullet each and critically wounded a third , police <m> said </m> Friday .
Yvonne Hiller , 43 , had gotten into an argument Thursday evening with her co - workers at the northeast Philadelphia plant , police said .
After she was disciplined , she went to her vehicle , made several phone calls , and then grabbed a . 357 Magnum and used it to force her way past security guards at the front gate .
About 100 people were at work at the plant , which makes Nabisco cookies and crackers .
Hiller walked to the third - floor mixing area and found four people in the break room .
She had no quarrels with one woman and told her to leave .
She then opened fire on the others , Philadelphia Homicide Capt . James Clark said .
"She believed they were spraying chemicals at her , saying things behind her back , " Clark said .
After leaving the break room , Hiller went down a hallway and fired shots at the supervisor who had suspended her and at a mechanic who was using a walkie - talkie to alert police and co - workers to her whereabouts , police said .
She missed both .
Hiller finally went to a second - floor office and called police to tell them what she had done , authorities said .
Seven other workers were hiding in a closet nearby .
Cpl . Janice Leader , a 911 dispatcher , told reporters Friday that Hiller called 911 , saying "I'm the one you're looking for" and reporting that she had been harassed at work .
Keeping her on the line , Leader said she told Hiller to put the gun down and place her hands on her head so officers wouldn't take any aggressive action against her .
When tactical police who had entered the plant found her , Hiller was in a fetal position on the floor , the gun beside her .
Police called the mechanic a hero who "did a phenomenal job" in alerting employees to evacuate the building and directing officers to where Hiller was .
"By following the suspect at great peril to himself – and we can see that by the fact that he was shot at and almost hit – he reduced our tactical problem quite dramatically , " Chief Inspector Joe Sullivan said .
Police identified the victims as Tanya Renee Wilson , 47 ; LaTonya Sharon Brown , 36 ; and Bryant A . Dalton , 39 , all of Philadelphia .
Wilson and Brown died at the plant .
Dalton , shot in the neck , remained in intensive care Friday at Jefferson University Hospital , police said .
The plant will remain closed indefinitely , Kraft said .
"We suspended the employee when she became agitated and used profanity .
We wanted the opportunity to investigate the situation , " Kraft said in a statement Friday .
Hiller was charged with two counts of murder , one count of attempted murder , aggravated assault and other charges .
She had a permit to carry the gun , authorities said .
Hiller has worked for Kraft for about 15 years , and had been in repeated arguments there in the past several years , a few of them physical , Clark said .
Yet a next - door neighbor described Hiller as a quiet woman who kept to herself but said she was polite and exchanged pleasantries when they saw each other .
Catherine Hillgen , who has lived on the tidy middle - class city block for about 45 years , said Hiller moved in several years ago with her son but recently has been living alone .
She initially dismissed a neighbor's report Thursday that Hiller might be involved in a fatal workplace shooting , but then heard her named on the news Friday .
"It was a complete shock , " Hillgen said .
"I would not expect it . "
Kraft , based in Northfield , Ill . , also makes Oreo cookies , Philadelphia cream cheese , Oscar Mayer bacon and other products .
Mass shootings are rarely carried out by women , said Dr . Park Dietz , president of Threat Assessment Group Inc . , a Newport Beach , Calif . - based violence prevention firm .
Earlier this year , Amy Bishop , a former instructor and researcher at the University of Alabama's Huntsville campus , was charged with murder in a campus shooting spree that left three biology professors dead and three other employees wounded .
She claimed the shootings "didn't happen . "
Thursday's shooting came just weeks after a driver who had been accused of stealing from a Manchester , Conn . , beer distributorship fatally shot eight people , then himself .
The driver , who was black , had seethed with a sense of racial injustice in his job , said his girlfriend .
But the beer distributor's president said there was no record to support claims of "racial insensitivity . "