Westroads Mall shooting
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The Westroads Mall shooting was a mass shooting that happened on December 5, 2007, in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. The gunman, nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins, killed eight people and wounded four, two of them critically. Hawkins later committed suicide.[1] It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958.[2]
Westroads Mall Shooting Media
Memorial Plaque in Von Maur
References
- ↑ Omaha Mall, Scene Of Mass Killing, Reopens (2007-12-08)CBS News. Retrieved 2007-12-09.
- ↑ Omaha's Deadliest Hour: 19-year-old man kills eight and himself at Westroads Mall (2007-12-05)Omaha World Herald. Retrieved 2007-12-05.
