A 19 year old man killed eight people and then himself with an assult rifel at a busy mall in Omaha on wednesday, sending terrified workers and christmas shoppers scrambling for cover.
"Now i will be famous," the gun man wrote in a sucide note, its landlady told CNN after finding threepart document that she said included his will.
Police declined to discuss the contents of the note.
Five people were bounded, two of them critically, in the early afternoon rampage in the Mid western US city. Most of the victim at the upscale
Westroads Mall were shot inside the Von Maur Department store near the children's clothing areas.
"it was horrible, just horrible."one woman told local television station KE TV, saying she hid under a rack of clothes when the gunfire started.
The white House said it was a "terrible tragedy".
Omaha police chief Thomas Waren identified the gunman as Robert Hawkins, 19, from Bellevue, Nebraska, near Omaha.
Hawkins was living with friends after going through a series of hard times, according to many who said they were close to him.
Warren said the dead were five females and three males but he would not specify whether any were children.
Friday, December 7, 2007
A 19 year old boy killed eight people and then himself in Omaha
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