Police: Feuds led Pa. woman to shoot colleagues

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Racism no doubt. So it's racism when they do the shooting and it's racism when they get shot. Got it?

Police: Feuds led Pa. woman to shoot colleagues

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By MARYCLAIRE DALE, Associated Press Writer Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press Writer – 2 hrs 2 mins ago

PHILADELPHIA – A Kraft Foods plant worker was suspended from her job because she was feuding with colleagues, then returned minutes later with a handgun and fatally shot two of them and critically wounded a third, police said Friday.

Yvonne Hiller, 43, was escorted from the plant after being told of the suspension about 8:30 p.m. Thursday. But she returned from her vehicle with a .357 magnum, threatened a guard with her gun to get past security, and made her way to the third floor, where she found her victims in a break room, police said.

Hiller told one woman she was free to leave, then fired just three shots, one at each victim, Homicide Capt. James Clark said.

Hiller had been involved in a series of arguments and a few physical altercations in recent years in the mixing area where she worked, police said.

After leaving the break room, Hiller went down a hallway and fired shots at the supervisor who had suspended her along with an employee who was using a walkie-talkie to alert police and co-workers to her whereabouts, police said. She missed both of them.

Hiller then went to a second-floor office, where she called police to tell them what she had done. She had put her gun down by the time officers found her there, Clark said.

The victims were identified 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, was in critical condition at Jefferson University Hospital, police said.

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. The Northfield, Ill.-based company makes Oreo cookies, Philadelphia cream cheese, Oscar Mayer bacon and other products.

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Everyone involved was black. Shooter was muzlim. Now they are all spiritual!

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Co-Worker-Calls-Alleged-Shooter-Very-Spiritual-102624529.html

Co-Worker Calls Alleged Shooter: "Very Spiritual"

By KAREN ARAIZA
Updated 12:15 PM EDT, Fri, Sep 10, 2010

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"She's not a loose cannon. She's a hard worker, works very hard. She's very spiritual."


Kenneth Dorsey says the woman accused of killing two co-workers and critically injuring a third at the Kraft plant in Northeast Philly is a good person. And so were the two women she's accused of gunning down with a .357 Magnum, just minutes after she'd been suspended and escorted from the building.

Dorsey's been at the plant for 37 years and worked on the third floor with the three victims and the alleged shooter, Yvonne Hiller.

"They had argued, from what I was told, they argued," Dorsey told NBC10's Rosemary Connors after the shootings Thursday night.

"I had just started my job, you know and I heard like bang, bang, but you hear noises everyday at a bakery so you don't pay any mind." Then a co-worker yelled, "Come on, you got to leave now! She's shooting."

After the shootings, Hiller holed up in an office on the second floor where the SWAT team found her after co-workers who were hiding in the office next door tipped off building security.

"I never thought in my deepest heart that it would come down to this," Dorsey said.

The reason Hiller was suspended had not been made public Friday afternoon and while some co-workers said she had a history of run-ins with other workers and management, Dorsey said like anyone, they sometimes had their differences, but always got along.

"We talked about her Muslim faith and I wished her happy Ramadan," Dorsey said. "I might be wrong, but my guess is she had some people that she had issues with and a personal agenda, a score she had to settle."

Dorsey said the shooting was going to be hard on everyone. "We're like family here."

"Tell your audience to keep the families in your prayers, however you pray -- whether you're Jewish, Christian, Muslim -- we're all in shock...and I lost two of my closest friends. . .I'm gonna go home and take a shower and read the bible and pray. Hopefully, I can get through this.

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Another hate filled, jew-owned corporation. :P

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"A spiritual person?" :D killing 2 co-workers like that doesn't sound very spiritual to me.... :D I guess the guy that shot and killed 9 people last month in CT at that beer distributor was spiritual too.... :D

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Tanya Wilson


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Bryant Dalton

Kraft Shooting Suspect Officially Charged With Murder

vid at link:

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local-beat/Kraft-Shooting-Suspect-Victims-Argued-For-Years-102630054.html

Shooting suspect and victims argued for years, friends say

By KAREN ARAIZA and TERESA MASTERSON

Updated 6:52 PM EDT, Fri, Sep 10, 2010

The woman who allegedly shot three co-workers -- killing two-- at the Kraft Plant Thursday night has been charged with murder, attempted murder, aggravated assault, burglary, and other related charges, says Philadelphia District Attorney Seth Williams.

The victims and alleged shooter in the last night's Kraft plant shooting had a history of arguing that dates back several years -- the suspect thought her co-workers were spraying chemicals on her and talking behind her back, according to police.

Yvonne Hiller, 43, got into an altercation with the two women and a male co-worker Thursday night, was taken to the supervisor's office, suspended and escorted out of the building.

She went to her car, made several phone calls -- one to a male friend who she told she'd had enough. That man called police.

Ten minutes after being taken off the job, Hiller drove her car to the security gate and forced her way in at gunpoint, police say, and headed back up to the third floor armed with her .357 Magnum, which she has a permit to carry.

She went to the employee lounge, saw four of her co-workers -- three of with whom she'd just had the altercation. The fourth person told her to get out of the lounge. She shot the other three, police say. Bryant Dalton, 39, was shot in the neck and is hospitalized in critical condition. Latonya Brown, 36, was shot in the head and Tanya Wilson, 47, was shot in the side. Both women died.

Friends and co-workers flooded Wilson's Facebook. "My friend, my co worker, such a sweet and caring person, please know that you will be forever in our hearts. RIP," one woman wrote.

Wilson describes herself as a "hard working muslim sister" who does not drink or take drugs and was looking for the same in a mate.

"Finally and hopefully able to buy a nice piece of land and retire in Maryland or Virginia," Wilson wrote on her page.

Hiller, who has been with the company for 15 years, went looking for the supervisor after she shot the three people, investigators say. A mechanic in the building used his walkie-talkie to alert people to get out of the building and his cell phone to alert police. He followed Hiller, who allegedly shot at him, but missed. Police say she also shot at her supervisor and missed him as well.

The suspect then went into a second floor office and made numerous phone calls -- including a call to 911 to tell them what she'd done and why.

According to 911 dispatcher Janice Leader, Hiller called the emergency line and told them "I'm the one you're looking for."

"Before they [police] came in, I was trying to rush and tell her to get the gun down and put her hands on her head so they could see that she had no weapon on her and so that no one would take any aggressive action against her," says Leader.

SWAT was called. When they found Hiller on the second floor, she was in the fetal position on the floor. Her gun was empty, but she had more ammunition in her pockets, police say.

Police gave a lot of credit to the mechanic, saying the building is massive and that without his help, it might have taken them much longer to find Hiller. She has been charged with two counts of murder, attempted murder and related offenses.

In a statement about the shooting, Kraft Foods Director of Corporate Affairs Susan Davison said that the Kraft facility is going to be closed until further notice and the company will be providing counseling services for employees.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families. The loss of a loved one is a great sorrow," Davison said.