Man slain in car in S. Philly Police are seeking the killers after a shooting death early yesterday in South Philadelphia.

The victim, 24, whose name wasn't released, was shot twice in the chest and once in the head as he sat in a car on Reed Street near 24th shortly after 1 a.m., police said. Medics declared him dead on the scene at 1:23 a.m., police said. Police reported no suspects or motive.

It was a birthday block party with plenty of tunes and eats to go around.

The festivities started at 8 a.m. in Logan, on Rockland Street between 7th and 8th, which had been roped off - ironically, it would later turn out - with yellow crime-scene tape. After 12 hours of dancing and celebrating on a beautiful September Sunday, the party ended at 8:30 p.m.

Less than two hours later, at 10:20 p.m., while a group of neighbors was still sweeping up from the party, four men from the neighborhood were shot up by an unknown assailant who had his face covered with a dark shirt.

All the male victims - none was identified by police - were shot in one of their legs, police said. Their ages are 15, 17, 20 and 48, cops said.

When the shots rang out, "everybody scattered, everybody left," said block captain Dawn Rykard.

About 15 patrol cars from the 35th District were already in the area, attempting to break up a heated argument among eight teenage girls at the corner of 8th and Rockland, said Rykard, whose daughter and niece were among the participants.

A man who said that he was watching the women argue said that he "heard four shots" and rushed to his car and saw the 48-year-old victim lying on the sidewalk near Rockland and Franklin streets. The man said that he and his friend, the victim's relative, drove the the man to Albert Einstein Medical Center, while they were pursued by police and later were treated "like we were suspects," he said.

The female in-fighting had nothing to do with the shooting, he said.

Three gunmen fired 13 shots at one another about 6 p.m. yesterday in North Philadelphia.

One of the bullets found an innocent bystander, a 42-year-old woman who was shot in the hand on 9th Street near Cambria, said police Chief Inspector Scott Small. The victim was admitted to Temple University Hospital in stable condition, Small said. The shooters fled, apparently uninjured. Tipsters can call 215-686-3243.

A FEMALE EMPLOYEE who was escorted out of the Kraft Foods building in the Northeast after being suspended last night returned within minutes with a .357 Magnum and began firing at fellow workers, police said.

She killed two female employees on the third floor and shot and critically wounded a male employee in a stairwell, police said. Sources identified her as Yvonne Hiller, whose address not immediately available.

Police Commissioner Charles H. Ramsey told reporters that Hiller then went to the second floor and hid in an office.

She was unaware that in an adjoining office, seven employees were hiding. They called police and told them where she was.

As police approached her hiding place, Hiller fired a shot through the wall at them and at one point reloaded her weapon, Ramsey said. Hiller surrendered when SWAT team members entered the room about 9:30 p.m., he said.

The drama at the plant, on Byberry Road near Roosevelt Boulevard, began about 8:35 p.m., when Hiller was escorted from the building after being suspended from her job, Ramsey said. It wasn't clear why Hiller, a 15-year Kraft employee, had been suspended.

She got into her car and several minutes later drove through a barrier, jumped out with the high-powered handgun, ran into the building and began shooting.

Police, firefighters and emergency equipment swarmed around the building.

About 100 employees, who make Oreo cookies, Philadelphia Cream Cheese and Oscar Mayer bacon, were evacuated, and busy Roosevelt Boulevard was temporarily shut down.

The wounded man was admitted to Aria Health's Torresdale hospital in critical condition.

Chief Inspector Joseph Sullivan hailed the actions of a mechanic who encountered the woman on the third floor and followed her to the second, talking with police all the while on his cell phone and encouraging other employees to evacuate.

At one point, Hiller realized she was being followed, turned around and fired at the man. He sprained an ankle ducking the bullet and required hospital treatment, Sullivan said.

"His actions made a big difference to police," Sullivan said. "Inside that building is a labyrinth. Without his information, police would have had trouble making their way through the building."

Tanya Bussey, whose sister Valerie Johnson works in the building, got a scare when her sister called her after the shooting erupted.

"My sister called and said there was someone in the building who was shooting and that she was going to hide, and then her phone went dead," Bussey said.

She said that panic gripped her and that she and another relative raced to the building. Her sister finally called back and said she was safe and sound.

Andrew Wells said his father-in-law, who works for Kraft, phoned his own wife and said, "Someone came down the hallway. There's shooting in the bakery."

Earl Cooper, an electrician at Kraft, said he and a few other employees were working in a small lab when a supervisor entered and shouted, "Keep everybody back!"

"Then I heard a couple of gunshots," he said. "Kraft is like a big family. People were worried if their friends were all right."

YVONNE HILLER didn't like LaTonya Brown and Tanya Wilson.

The three worked in the third-floor mixing room at the Kraft Foods plant on Roosevelt Boulevard near Byberry Road in Northeast Philadelphia. Hiller had fought with Brown and Wilson - verbally and physically - for at least two years, accusing them of throwing chemicals at her and talking behind her back.

Thursday night was the latest fight. It led to Hiller's supervisor booting her out of the plant with a suspension. But Hiller refused to go quietly, police said.

The 43-year-old Crescentville woman went to her car, where she kept a .357-caliber Magnum handgun. She returned, pointed it at two unarmed security guards and demanded re-entry, police said.

She then beelined to the third floor, where she found Brown, 36, Wilson, 47, and two other co-workers in a break room.

She instructed one to leave, saying she had no quarrel with her. Then, according to police, she began blasting away.

She allegedly shot Brown once in the head at close range and Wilson in the side. And she allegedly shot Bryant Dalton, 39, who'd also been involved in the earlier argument, in the neck.

She then hunted down her supervisor in a third-floor hallway and allegedly fired at him but missed.

She also allegedly fired at and missed a heroic Kraft mechanic who followed Hiller, shouting at co-workers to flee and reporting her movements on a cell phone to a 9-1-1 operator and on his walkie-talkie to other employees.

She also fired once at the first officers on the scene, Homicide Capt. James Clark said.

Hiller then hid in a darkened, second-floor office and called 9-1-1, unaware that seven co-workers had cowered in fear in an adjoining room.

" 'I'm the person you're looking for at the Kraft Nabisco building,' " Hiller said to a dispatcher, according to Cpl. Janice Leader.

Leader, a 9-1-1 supervisor, then got on the phone. " 'So, now you want to help me?' " an agitated Hiller said, according to Leader. " 'Now you want to help me?' "

Leader said she spent about 40 minutes on the phone and told Hiller that police were on their way to the room. "I told her, 'Put the gun down. Put the gun down. And put your hands on top of your head so they'll know you're not being aggressive to them,' " Leader said.

SWAT officers stormed the building, apprehended Hiller and freed the hiding co-workers at 9:36 p.m., about 40 minutes after the shooting rampage began.

Paramedics declared Brown, of Poplar Street near 11th in North Philly, and Wilson, of 10th Street near Erie Avenue in Hunting Park, dead at the scene. Dalton was in good condition last night at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital.

Hiller, who didn't have a criminal record and lived by herself in a two-story brick rowhouse with a tidy lawn and porch on Carver Street near Tabor Avenue, is being held without bail on murder and related charges. Neighbors said she has a son in his 20s.

Some neighbors described her as a hypochondriac who worried about a smell in her house and often called 9-1-1. She had a security camera mounted outside.

Hiller, a 15-year Kraft employee, who had worked in the mixing room for six years, allegedly also complained to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration about her work. An OSHA form, dated Nov. 23, 2009, said a Kraft Foods employee complained about "being harassed by various other employees working in the same area" and alleged "being sprayed with chemicals and even deer urine" at work.

Kraft, in a Dec. 3, 2009, letter to OSHA, said it had received complaints by a mixing-room employee alleging "exposure to a variety of chemicals." The company said it had offered to test the employee's clothing and offered "additional medical review," but she refused. It said it did not find evidence of the employee's claims.

A Kraft spokeswoman said by e-mail last night that Hiller later claimed she made the anonymous complaint.

Next-door neighbors of Hiller yesterday described a time when she threatened violence. Dierr Rowland, 12, recalled playing his radio loudly one afternoon last year. Hiller came to his home "screaming at us," the boy said.

Tonine Rowland, 35, Dierr's mother, said after she and a friend argued with Hiller, Hiller tried to get into her home, and Rowland's friend kicked open the screen door, hitting Hiller. Hiller returned with a metal bat and banged on the screen door.

"Bitch, come out," Hiller yelled to Rowland's friend, Rowland said. Hiller returned home and called 9-1-1, but the police who responded didn't issue any citations, Rowland said.

"I think they were really tired of her. She would just call the police randomly, same as the Fire Department," Rowland said. "She would say she just smelled smoke."

Rowland said Hiller "was always angry" and "would always seem stressed" and was a "hypochondriac." Referring to Hiller's security camera, Rowland said Hiller "swore the neighbors let their dogs pee" on her front lawn.

Another neighbor, 45, recalled how Hiller was always worried about a smell in her house. The woman, who did not want to give her name, said she went to Hiller's "so clean, so immaculate" house three years ago and smelled something, but didn't know what it was. Hiller said she thought the smell was in her wall, this woman said.

Hiller complained that she was afraid some neighbors were "trying to hurt her," the woman said. "It got to the point where it started to scare me. Like something was wrong with her mentally."

George Harris, 45, said Hiller was a friendly person and he was "shocked" to hear of the shooting. Hiller expressed interest in purchasing a pup from his pregnant Presa Canario dog, he said. "I was telling her the dog's good protection for her home," he said.

Clark, the homicide captain, said Hiller legally owned her gun and had a permit to carry. When she went to get the gun Thursday night, she called a male friend to complain she'd had enough of the harassment and would shoot her tormentors. Her friend called 9-1-1, Clark said.

Meanwhile, Wilson's and Brown's families yesterday mourned their loved ones. "It was Kraft's fault LaTonya is dead," said Jenine Harris, Brown's best friend. "There was a history of problems with this lady."

Brown's mother, Robin, said she spoke with her daughter about an hour before the shooting and her daughter told her she had a meeting with her supervisors regarding Hiller.

Robin said her daughter, who had four children, ages 6 to 22, told her: "I'm scared. I don't feel safe here."

Wilson's family was equally stunned by the tragedy.

"When a person is as sweet and kind as she was, you're always going to miss that," said Julia Norris, Wilson's mother-in-law. "What you have left are all the sweet memories. You just have to go by that."

Four people were wounded last night, including a 3-year-old girl, when bullets rang out in a Kensington neighborhood, police said.

The shooting happened shortly after 6:30 p.m. on Cornwall Street near E, investigators said.

Once the smoke cleared, a 36-year-old woman had been shot once in the hip and her 3-year-old daughter suffered a graze wound to the head, according to police.

Both were taken by medics to Temple University Hospital, where they were listed in stable condition, cops said.

A 23-year-old man was shot once in the wrist and also taken to Temple, where he was listed in stable condition.

Police found the fourth victim, a 25-year-old man, around the corner on Westmoreland Street near F, suffering from two gunshot wounds to the lower back, cops said.

He was taken to Temple Hospital where his condition was unknown.

Investigators were trying to piece together a motive for the shooting and reported no arrests.

"This type of violence really makes no sense," said Lt. Frank Vanore, a police spokesman. "It's not a video game we can restart.

"We will put a strong effort into finding those responsible," Vanore said. "It's outrageous a 3-year-old was hurt in this type of incident."