What is Westroads Mall shooting?
[[File:VonMaurOmaha.jpg|thumb|right|230px|Police in front of the Von Maur store]] 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]].<ref name=cbs>{{cite web|url=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/08/national/main3594414.shtml|title=Omaha Mall, Scene Of Mass Killing, Reopens|date=2007-12-08|access-date=2007-12-09|publisher=CBS News|archive-date=2007-12-14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071214020551/http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/08/national/main3594414.shtml|url-status=dead}}</ref> It was the deadliest [[mass murder]] in [[Nebraska]] since the rampage of [[Charles Starkweather]] in 1958.<ref name=starkweather>{{cite web |url=http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10202217 |title=Omaha's Deadliest Hour: 19-year-old man kills eight and himself at Westroads Mall |publisher=Omaha World Herald |date=2007-12-05 |access-date=2007-12-05 |archive-date=2012-05-30 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120530153215/http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=10202217 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:2007 in the United States]] [[Category:Omaha, Nebraska]] [[Category:Deaths by firearm in the United States]] [[Category:2000s in Nebraska]] {{Multistub|history|US}}