Overview
- Authorities charged 40-year-old David Delong of Watkins with second-degree murder in the death of a female coworker at Advanced Process Technologies in Cokato.
- Deputies found the woman at her workstation with severe head trauma around 6 a.m. Tuesday and she was pronounced dead at the scene.
- Investigators recovered a bloody sledgehammer near the body and obtained video showing Delong walk to the workstation and swing the tool multiple times.
- A coworker told deputies Delong said, "hit her with your hammer, she is by your toolbox, she is gone," according to the complaint.
- Charging documents say Delong confessed, described disliking the victim and planning the killing, and he is set for an initial court appearance for a bail hearing.