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Police tape hangs in front of the Von Maur store at the Westroads
Mall Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 in Omaha, Neb. Robert A. Hawkins, 19,
armed with a semi-automatic rifle, opened fire on shoppers at the
Omaha shopping mall Wednesday, killing eight people before killing
himself.
(Photo: Getty Images/Eric Thayer)
Police say Robert Hawkins, 19, of Bellevue, Neb., seen here in a
yearbook picture from Papillion-La Vista High School, shot eight
people before killing himself in a mall in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday,
Dec. 5, 2007. Hawkins, who had a history of depression, broke up
with his longtime girlfriend two weeks ago and this week he was
fired from his job at a fast-food restaurant, said a woman whose
family took Hawkins in.
(Photo: Papillion-La Vista High School)
This image taken from a video surveillance camera and released by
the Omaha Police Department
Robert A. Hawkins walking into the Westroads Mall moments before
killing eight people and himself.
(Omaha PD / Associated Press)
Robert A. Hawkins is pictured inside the Westroads Mall in Omaha,
Neb., moments before opening fire.
(Omaha PD / Associated Press)
Robert A. Hawkins raises a rifle in the Von Maur Department store in
the Westroads Mall in Omaha
in this image taken from surveillance tape.
(Omaha PD / Associated Press)
A member of the Omaha police stands outside the Westroads mall,
after the shooting spree at a Von Maur store in the mall, in Omaha,
Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Robert Hawkins carried out his
shooting spree from the third floor of a store in the Westroads
Mall, the bullets from his rifle cutting through the sound of
Christmas music as he terrorized shoppers and employees. (Photo:
AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
A victim is wheeled out of the Westroads Mall. In addition to the
nine dead, five are reportedly wounded, two of them critically.
Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third-floor
balcony of the Von Maur store. (Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Larissa Starchenko, an employee who was inside the Von Maur store
when the gunman opened fire, is comforted by her daughter Yara,
back, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Police locked down
the Westroads Mall after eight people were shot and killed by a
gunman who then killed himself.
(Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
A Douglas County police officer guards the Westroads Mall parking
lot shortly after the shooting. The shooter, Robert A. Hawkins, was
born in Bellevue, Neb., a suburb of Omaha. (Photo: AP Photo/Nati
Harnik)
Shoppers and employees stand in the frigid weather outside the Von
Maur store where the shootings took place. (Photo: AP Photo/Nati
Harnik)
Some shoppers who fled the Westroads Mall after the shootings sought
shelter in a metal container.
(Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Women evacuated from the Von Maur store after a gunman opened fire
at the Westroads mall await news. (Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
A sheriff's vehicle parked outside Hawkins' home in Bellevue, Neb.
His landlord, Debora Muruca-Kovac, told reporters that Hawkins was
recently fired from his job at McDonald's and broke up with a
girlfriend. She said he telephoned her about 1 p.m. on Wednesday,
saying he had left a note - a suicide note. Hours later, she saw
victims of the shooting at the Nebraska Medical Center, where she
works as a nurse.
(Photo: AP Photo/Nati Harnik)
Crime lab technicians work on the shooting scene at the Von Maur
store. Police are reportedly still in the process of identifying the
victims, said to be three males and five females.
(Photo: AP
Photo/Dave Weaver)
Workers load the car believed to belong to Robert Hawkins onto a
flat-bed truck outside the Von Maur store in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday,
Dec. 5, 2007.Hawkins opened fire with a rifle at a busy department
store, killing eight people before killing himself. At the top of a
suicide note he left was his "will," which said that the green Jeep
Cherokee was to go to his mother, and that "my friends can have
whatever they want."
(Photo: AP Photo/Dave Weaver)
Police vehicle blocks the entrance to the Westroads Mall, site of
Wednesday's deadly shooting, in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007.
Eight people were killed and five wounded before the shooter, Robert
A. Hawkins, ended the horror by taking his own life. He left behind
a note that read, in part, "Now I'll be famous."
(Photo: AP Photo/Nati
Harnik)
A sign reading "Peace Be With You" is seen Friday, Dec. 7, 2007, on
the steps of the Von Maur store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb.,
the site of Wednesday's deadly shooting.
(Photo: AP Photo/Jeff
Roberson)
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