At about 1:40pm on Tuesday, Dec 4, one Robert Hawkins, 19, walked into the Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, took an elevator to the third floor of the Von Maur department store, and started firing an SKS rifle(an AK-47 knock-off). He killed eight and wounded two more, before killing himself. The victims:
Beverly Flynn, 47, of Omaha; Janet Jorgensen, 66, of Omaha; Gary Joy, 56, of Omaha; John McDonald, 65, of Council Bluffs; Gary Scharf, 48, of Lincoln; Angie Schuster, 36, of Omaha; Dianne Trent, 53, of Omaha; and Maggie Webb, 24.
--"The suspect was described as a young man wearing an Army- green vest and carrying a rifle, TV station KETV reported. Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third- floor balcony in the store.....
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--The first phone call from Westroads Mall came in to 911 dispatchers at 1:42 p.m.
--The first officers were dispatched at 1:44. They arrived at 1:48 six minutes after that initial call.
--At 2:12 p.m., police reported finding the gunman down from a self-inflicted gunshot.
-- On the 911 tapes, the first call at 1:42 p.m. lasts less than a minute, but on it, dispatchers hear about 23 shots in spurts of two, three and four.
--Hawkins "went into customer service and told them to open the vault." Police said, however, that robbery was not a motive.
--Hawkins first walked in Von Maur's south entrance without a gun, perhaps casing the store. A store security guard thought he was acting suspiciously and perhaps intended to shoplift. Hawkins left the store and returned minutes later with a gun concealed in a hooded sweatshirt.
[Comment: I don't thing that you can "conceal" a weapon as large as an SKS under your sweatshirt. A video still released that shows him reentering is too fuzzy to see any weapon being carried.]
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-- Twenty to 40 minutes before the shooting, an ex-girlfriend of Hawkins received a text message from him describing his plan, according to a 16-year-old girl who had been threatened in the past.
"He said that he wanted to die," she said. " 'I just want to shoot a whole lot of people at the mall and kill myself.' "
[Comment: How very convenient for the official version of events.]
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The officers first established a perimeter on the main level of the mall and placed the mall on lockdown. After clearing the hallways, the chief said, they began searching the first floor of Von Maur. He(Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine) also assured the public that the shooting does not appear to be part of a larger conspiracy.
[Comment: Whatever happened to going in after the gunman? Why would they need to reassure the public that others were not involved?]
One woman said she had seen the gunman on the attack. "I went around and then I saw the guy in the children's department," she said. "Big tall guy, real tall and he just stood there with his arm like this, his hand straight up in the air, shooting."
--The shooter left a suicide note that was found by his mother
a suicide note said he was going to be famous.
BACKGROUND
--Hawkins was a student at Papillion- La Vista High School. He withdrew in March 2006, a district spokeswoman said. Hawkins was disciplined for skipping classes but never showed anger toward the staff or students, Principle Glover said. "He was pretty low-key, laid-back."
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--Mall gunman Robbie Hawkins had threatened to kill people as long as five years ago and as recently as two weeks ago.
-- Hawkins' diagnosis also included attention deficit disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, which is a persistent pattern of defying authority.
--Ben Glass, 31, remembered Hawkins as an average kid who enjoyed video games. "He was a quiet kid," Ben Glass said. While in foster care, Hawkins got into legal trouble. Hawkins was charged in Sarpy County Juvenile Court with third-degree assault in connection with an October 2003 fight at Papillion-La Vista High School and with unlawful tobacco use by a minor at the school in September 2004. He was ordered to serve 50 hours of community service.
[Comment: I remember when getting into a fight at school and getting caught smoking in the boy's room was not considered a police matter.]
-- He was fired from a job at a Bellevue McDonald's restaurant Wednesday after several months on the job, said Debora Maruca, whose family Hawkins had been staying with. Maruca said Hawkins told her he was accused of stealing $17 from the restaurant.
-- A friend of Hawkins, Shawn, told KETV NewsWatch 7 said Hawkins had been on antidepressants. He was staying with friends in Quail Creek, the friend said, and he said Hawkins had recently begun bouncing from job to job and making "some bad judgment calls."
--A KETV.com user e-mailed this:
"I went to school for seven years with (Hawkins) and he seemed to be a suicidal kid. During school, he would talk about killing or something along those lines."
Beverly Flynn, 47, of Omaha; Janet Jorgensen, 66, of Omaha; Gary Joy, 56, of Omaha; John McDonald, 65, of Council Bluffs; Gary Scharf, 48, of Lincoln; Angie Schuster, 36, of Omaha; Dianne Trent, 53, of Omaha; and Maggie Webb, 24.
--"The suspect was described as a young man wearing an Army- green vest and carrying a rifle, TV station KETV reported. Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third- floor balcony in the store.....
www.omahaworldherald.com/...d=10202217
--The first phone call from Westroads Mall came in to 911 dispatchers at 1:42 p.m.
--The first officers were dispatched at 1:44. They arrived at 1:48 six minutes after that initial call.
--At 2:12 p.m., police reported finding the gunman down from a self-inflicted gunshot.
-- On the 911 tapes, the first call at 1:42 p.m. lasts less than a minute, but on it, dispatchers hear about 23 shots in spurts of two, three and four.
--Hawkins "went into customer service and told them to open the vault." Police said, however, that robbery was not a motive.
--Hawkins first walked in Von Maur's south entrance without a gun, perhaps casing the store. A store security guard thought he was acting suspiciously and perhaps intended to shoplift. Hawkins left the store and returned minutes later with a gun concealed in a hooded sweatshirt.
[Comment: I don't thing that you can "conceal" a weapon as large as an SKS under your sweatshirt. A video still released that shows him reentering is too fuzzy to see any weapon being carried.]
www.omahaworldherald.com/...d=10202350
-- Twenty to 40 minutes before the shooting, an ex-girlfriend of Hawkins received a text message from him describing his plan, according to a 16-year-old girl who had been threatened in the past.
"He said that he wanted to die," she said. " 'I just want to shoot a whole lot of people at the mall and kill myself.' "
[Comment: How very convenient for the official version of events.]
www.omahaworldherald.com/...d=10202781
The officers first established a perimeter on the main level of the mall and placed the mall on lockdown. After clearing the hallways, the chief said, they began searching the first floor of Von Maur. He(Douglas County Attorney Don Kleine) also assured the public that the shooting does not appear to be part of a larger conspiracy.
[Comment: Whatever happened to going in after the gunman? Why would they need to reassure the public that others were not involved?]
One woman said she had seen the gunman on the attack. "I went around and then I saw the guy in the children's department," she said. "Big tall guy, real tall and he just stood there with his arm like this, his hand straight up in the air, shooting."
--The shooter left a suicide note that was found by his mother
a suicide note said he was going to be famous.
BACKGROUND
--Hawkins was a student at Papillion- La Vista High School. He withdrew in March 2006, a district spokeswoman said. Hawkins was disciplined for skipping classes but never showed anger toward the staff or students, Principle Glover said. "He was pretty low-key, laid-back."
www.omahaworldherald.com/...d=10202350
--Mall gunman Robbie Hawkins had threatened to kill people as long as five years ago and as recently as two weeks ago.
-- Hawkins' diagnosis also included attention deficit disorder and oppositional defiant disorder, which is a persistent pattern of defying authority.
--Ben Glass, 31, remembered Hawkins as an average kid who enjoyed video games. "He was a quiet kid," Ben Glass said. While in foster care, Hawkins got into legal trouble. Hawkins was charged in Sarpy County Juvenile Court with third-degree assault in connection with an October 2003 fight at Papillion-La Vista High School and with unlawful tobacco use by a minor at the school in September 2004. He was ordered to serve 50 hours of community service.
[Comment: I remember when getting into a fight at school and getting caught smoking in the boy's room was not considered a police matter.]
-- He was fired from a job at a Bellevue McDonald's restaurant Wednesday after several months on the job, said Debora Maruca, whose family Hawkins had been staying with. Maruca said Hawkins told her he was accused of stealing $17 from the restaurant.
-- A friend of Hawkins, Shawn, told KETV NewsWatch 7 said Hawkins had been on antidepressants. He was staying with friends in Quail Creek, the friend said, and he said Hawkins had recently begun bouncing from job to job and making "some bad judgment calls."
--A KETV.com user e-mailed this:
"I went to school for seven years with (Hawkins) and he seemed to be a suicidal kid. During school, he would talk about killing or something along those lines."
