PHILADELPHIA – Minutes after a woman was suspended from her job at a Kraft Foods Inc. plant and was escorted out, she returned with a handgun and opened fire, killing two people and critically injuring a third before being taken into custody, police said.

The shootings occurred shortly after 8:30 p.m. Thursday inside a northeast Philadelphia plant where workers for the nation’s largest food manufacturer make cookies and crackers.

The Northfield, Ill.-based company’s products include Oreo cookies, Philadelphia cream cheese and Oscar Mayer bacon.

About 10 minutes after the woman was escorted out, she returned in a car and drove through a security barrier before re-entering the building on foot, Lt. Frank Vanore said.

As she walked inside, she fired a shot at an employee who had followed her in and had yelled, “Hide, she’s got a gun!” Vanore said. That shot missed.

The woman then shot the three victims, said police, who didn’t immediately release the victims’ identities or say whether they had been targeted. Officers responded and isolated the shooter in a room, and she fired a shot at them but missed, Vanore said.

Officers freed seven people who were “in a bad position” near the woman and were hiding, said Vanore, who wouldn’t refer to them as hostages. The woman was apprehended about an hour after the shootings started, he said.

Investigators, who didn’t say why the woman had been suspended, were working to piece together more about what led to the sequence of events. They did not identify her.

Television footage showed workers leaving the plant, which used to be known as the Nabisco factory and is about six stories tall. Police surrounded the plant minutes after the shootings, and roads in the area were detoured as officers swarmed nearby.

Dough mixer Andy Ryan, who has worked at the plant for nearly 30 years, said he was on the third floor when the sound of the shots echoed through the building.

“I heard the gunfire, and I ran,” he told The Associated Press, his apron still on. “As I was running down the steps they were yelling, ‘Oh, my God, there’s three people shot!’”

The Philadelphia Inquirer reported that about 100 people were inside the plant but had been cleared out.

Kraft said in a statement that in addition to the three employees who were shot, a contract worker suffered a less serious injury, but it did not elaborate.

“This is a sad day for the Kraft Foods family,” the statement said. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to their families. The loss of a loved one is a great sorrow.”

Kraft said the plant would be closed until further notice and the company would provide employees with counseling.

Mass shootings are rarely carried out by women, said Dr. Park Dietz, a forensic psychiatrist and president of Threat Assessment Group Inc., a Newport Beach, Calif.-based violence prevention firm. But Dietz said that doesn’t mean people should discount the violence potential of women.

“It was always a matter of time until we saw more incidents involving women,” Dietz said in a phone interview with the AP early Friday.

Nevertheless, of the 10 to 20 multiple-victim workplace shootings in the U.S. each year, very few involve female shooters, Dietz said. They remain “a rarity,” he added.

Some notable exceptions include a 1985 rampage at a mall in Springfield, Pa., that left three people dead and seven wounded. Sylvia Seegrist was found guilty of murder but mentally ill in that case and was given three life sentences. She said in 1991 she hoped she wouldn’t have to spend the rest of her life in prison and “maybe 15 or 20 years would be fair.”

Earlier this year, Amy Bishop, a former instructor and researcher at the University of Alabama-Huntsville, was charged with murder in a February campus shooting spree that left three biology professors dead and three other employees injured. She claimed the shootings “didn’t happen.”

Thursday’s shootings came weeks after a driver who had been accused of stealing from a Manchester, Conn., beer distributorship shot and killed eight people and then himself.

The driver, Omar Thornton, had calmly agreed to quit on Aug. 3 after being confronted with surveillance video showing him stealing beer. But shortly afterward, he started shooting.

Thornton, who was black, told police dispatchers he had seethed with a sense of racial injustice in his job at Hartford Distributors.

But Hartford Distributors president Ross Hollander said there was no record to support claims of “racial insensitivity” made through the company’s anti-harassment policy, the union grievance process or state and federal agencies. Relatives of the victims also rejected the claims.

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Leonardo DiCaprio’s restraining order against allegedly delusional fan Livia Bistriceanu has been made permanent.

The obsessed Chicago woman must stay at least 100 yards away from DiCaprio, his home, his workplace and his vehicle for the next three years.

A judge with the Los Angeles Superior Court modified what had been a temporary order, won last month by the Inception star.

As Gossip Cop reported at the time, DiCaprio says Bistriceanu “maintains a delusional belief that she is my wife and carrying my child, Jesus.”

The woman’s alleged behavior regularly caused DiCaprio anxiety.

“I am frightened of Ms. Bistriceanu and feel that my personal safety, and the personal safety of those around me, is in jeopardy,” he declared in court documents.

Devon James — mistress number 20ish — is still featured on the website for the world famous Bunny Ranch in Carson City, where owner Dennis Hoff confirmed Devon was employed as a sex worker for “a while.”

But Hoff tells us he recently fired Devon’s ass after she injected herself into the Tiger Woods media circus because she “broke the code — which is privacy and discretion with all clients.”

Hoff continues, “She is a disgusting excuse for a working girl … she’s a scumbag and a snitch.”

As for Devon’s rate during her stint at the ranch — Hoff explains, “It’s negotiable depending on what you want … but it could get into the thousands.”

Hoff ended with this parting shot — “Now that she doesn’t work here anymore … I wish nothing but the worst for her.”

A rep for Devon tells us, “She worked there one time before the Tiger thing.”

The rep also insists that management at the Bunny Ranch continues to call Devon because they want her to work there.

Playboy model Tiffany Livingston was detained on Thursday after she allegedly tried to open a plane door in mid-flight, according to a New York newspaper.

The 21-year-old model was aboard JetBlue Flight 522 from Orlando, Fla., to Newark, N.J., when the woman allegedly busted out of her seat and tried to open the door of the plane, police told the New York Post.

An unnamed source told the paper that it was a bad case of high anxiety.

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According to a report from Us magazine, Cronin underwent a stem-cell transplant, which led to a stroke and severe leg pain.

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Shot through the heart and your to blame/you give love a bad name…

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