Posted on 11/16/2025 9:28:15 PM PST by Morgana
WRIGHT COUNTY, Minn. (Gray News) - A man is accused of using a sledgehammer to kill a coworker at an industrial processing plant in Minnesota.
The Wright County Sheriff’s Office said deputies were initially called early Tuesday morning to Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato after a woman was found at her workstation with significant head trauma.
Authorities said a bloody sledgehammer was found on the floor next to the woman, who has not yet been publicly identified.
Paramedics tried to save the woman’s life, but she died at the scene from her injuries.
Investigators used surveillance footage and witness accounts to determine the woman died after she was hit multiple times with the sledgehammer by her co-worker, 40-year-old David Bruce Delong, according to the Wright County district attorney.
elong, of Watkins, allegedly admitted to a witness at the workplace that he attacked the woman.
“I hit her with your hammer. She is by your toolbox. She is gone,” the witness remembered Delong saying, according to court documents.
The district attorney’s filing also states that Delong confessed to law enforcement that he attacked the woman, that he did not like her and he had “been planning to kill the victim for some time.”
Delong was arrested at the scene and booked at the Wright County Jail on a second-degree intentional murder charge.
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So no coworker he told well before this ever said anything to anyone else in the company? Or to her?
We don’t have the complete story here.
It would seem he did not say anything until after he killed her.
I am wondering what his beef was with her.
Maxwells Silver Hammer alert …
Bearded creep who said he had been planning to kill the woman because he didn’t like her.
May she rest in peace.
What do you expect from a sledgehammer, a love tap?
Didn’t see how close the other story on the other station was. Sorry I added it as a link.
Was Peter Gabriel around?
Delong was arrested at the scene and booked at the Wright County Jail on a second-degree intentional murder charge.
Second degree? Not first degree?
You can't get more intentional than what he admitted.
Betcha she turned him down for a date.
Or the great TV series that was canceled too soon.
Sledgehammer.
Two great scenes.
Detective Hammer calls for backup and six squad cars screech tires and officers rush in within a minute.
“I am really impressed at how you guys got here so fast. Outstanding.”
Cop: “Uh, there’s a donut shop right next door to here.”
“Betcha she turned him down for a date. “
That was my first thoughts.
Thing about it is, and I don’t know the woman but from the looks of her and what she did for a living, I get the feeling she and him played for the same team. Again I don’t know so don’t take that as the gospel truth.
I wonder if he has any particular “religious” views?
Betcha’ he is crazy. There must have been signs. I would guess he imagined she turned him down for a date.
Sledge deserved a few more seasons.
Perp’s name is “ Thráin II was the King of Durin’s Folk.”
He said something about her taking his “ring” and how he would not tolerate such on offense.
We need stricter hammer control laws.
This story won’t make national top-story status because a gun wasn’t used.
Another victim of sledge hammer violence. There hammers have no place in our society as they are made for destruction and should be banned
Minnesota. Woman murdered. I was expecting a Muslim name.
“I hit her with your hammer.”
“Was that wrong? Should I not have done that?”
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