Two people were gunned down after a disgruntled female employee at a Kraft factory in Philadelphia opened fire Thursday night just minutes after being suspended from her job, police said.
A third person was wounded before the shooter was taken into custody, cops added.
"I heard the gunfire, and I ran," Andy Ryan, a dough mixer at the cookie and cracker plant, told The Associated Press. "As I was running down the steps they were yelling, 'Oh, my God, there's three people shot!'"
Roughly 100 people were in the building when the woman, identified as Yvonne Hiller by the Philadelphia Inquirer, drove through a security barrier and re-entered the factory with a .357 magnum 10 minutes after she was escorted out of the building, police said.
The police did not say why Hiller, who had worked at Kraft for 15 years, was suspended from work.
"I don't know what her motive is and I don't want to guess," Philadelphia Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said.
After the shootings, a short standoff with a SWAT team ensued, with seven employees trapped in a second-floor room, the Inquirer reported.
Police said the seven were in "a bad position," but left the scene unharmed.
The names of the two people killed were not released.
Kraft said the factory would be closed as the police conduct their investigation.
In a statement, the company said, "This is a sad day for the Kraft Foods family."
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