'She is by your toolbox, she is gone': Man bludgeoned 20-year-old co-worker to death because he didn't like her, deputies say

A antheral successful Minnesota is accused of beating his co-worker implicit the caput with a sledgehammer due to the fact that helium did not similar her, sidesplitting the woman.

David Delong, 40, has been charged with second-degree murder, the Wright County Sheriff's Office announced. The convulsive incidental occurred connected Tuesday earlier the prima had risen.

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Prior to the timepiece striking 6 a.m., astatine the Advanced Process Technologies gathering successful Cokato, Delong near his workstation and walked to the presumption of the victim. According to surveillance video cited by authorities, the suspect, who was wearing gloves, grabbed a sledgehammer from the victim's workstation and swung.

Delong swung the sledgehammer "in a horizontal movement" portion the pistillate was believed to person been lasting up, the sheriff's bureau said, noting that the unfortunate was extracurricular of the camera's view. The fishy tin past beryllium seen "forcefully swinging the sledgehammer 4 further times successful a downward manner accordant with the unfortunate being connected the ground."

A probable origin connection puts the convulsive enactment bluntly: "The suspect bludgeoned the unfortunate to decease with aggregate blows to the victim's caput with the sledgehammer."

Delong "confessed" to sidesplitting the woman, according to authorities, telling them helium "intended to termination the victim" and "admitted not liking" her. He had besides "been readying to termination the unfortunate for immoderate time."

Deputies responded to the worksite to find the pistillate connected the cement level of the gathering adjacent her workstation "with precise important caput trauma and important humor loss." A bloody sledgehammer was connected the level adjacent her. First responders tried to prevention the victim, but she died "because of blunt unit trauma to her caput and corresponding humor loss."

Delong was rapidly identified arsenic a suspect. A witnesser reported that Delong told him thing on the lines of "I deed her with your hammer, she is by your toolbox, she is gone."

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The unfortunate was aboriginal identified arsenic 20-year-old Amber Czech, according to Minneapolis-based NBC affiliate KARE. She was remembered arsenic being hard-working, outgoing, and passionate astir welding.

Delong was arrested and booked into the Wright County Jail. He faces up to 40 years successful prison. Wright County Attorney Brian Lutes said helium volition reappraisal the lawsuit to see whether to convene a expansive assemblage successful pursuit of elevating the complaint to first-degree murder.

The suspect is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Nov. 24.

Cokato is located astir 50 miles westbound of Minneapolis.