Police cars cordoned in front of the Von Maur department store building
Location
Omaha, Nebraska, U.S.
Date
December 5, 2007 (2007-12-05) 1:43 – 1:49 p.m. CST (UTC−06:00)
Target
Von Maur in Westroads Mall
Attack type
Mass murder, mass shooting, murder-suicide
Weapons
WASR-10 7.62×39mm semi-automatic rifle[1]
Deaths
9 (including the perpetrator)
Injured
6 (4 from gunfire)[2]
Perpetrator
Robert Arthur Hawkins[3]
On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people and wounded four others in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide by shooting himself in the head.[4] It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958.[5] It is also the deadliest mass shooting in Nebraska history.
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^"Another injured person identified in Von Maur shootings". Omaha World-Herald. December 22, 2007. Archived from the original on December 23, 2007. Retrieved December 22, 2007.
^"Man opens fire at Omaha mall, killing 8". Yahoo! News. December 5, 2007. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
^"Omaha Mall, Scene Of Mass Killing, Reopens". CBS News. December 8, 2007. Retrieved December 9, 2007.
^"Omaha's Deadliest Hour: 19-year-old man kills eight and himself at Westroads Mall". Omaha World Herald. December 5, 2007. Archived from the original on May 30, 2012. Retrieved December 5, 2007.
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