Westroads Mall shooting

It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the Rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958.

It is also the deadliest mass shooting in Nebraska history.

An hour before the Rampage, Hawkins' mother gave the Sarpy County Sheriff's Department his suicide note, which read in part: "I just want to take a few pieces of shit with me... just think tho, I'm gonna be fuckin famous [sic]."

Surveillance footage showed that Hawkins, unarmed at first, entered the south entrance of the Von Maur department store at about 1:36 p.m. CST (19:36 UTC).

After walking a short distance into the store, he scanned the area, turned around and left.

Returning six minutes later through the same entrance, he proceeded directly to the elevator at his immediate right, this time with a Century WASR-10 (a commercial copy of the AKM (7.62×39mm) semi-automatic rifle) stolen from his stepfather's house, along with two 30-round magazines taped together, concealed in a sweatshirt.

He took the elevator to the top floor.

At approximately 1:43 p.m. CST (19:43 UTC), Hawkins stepped out of the elevator on the third floor and opened fire.

He first killed two women standing by some clothing racks before firing down the atrium, killing two men on the first and second floors.

He then wounded two people on the third floor, one fatally, before walking to the customer service desk, where he shot several people, killing three.

Hawkins then committed suicide by shooting himself up the chin.

He fired more than 30 rounds, striking 12 people.

Six were killed instantly, one died before reaching the hospital, and another died 45 minutes after reaching the ER of another hospital.

Omaha Police arrived at Westroads Mall about six minutes after receiving the first 911 call.

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.

Audio tapes and transcripts of the 911 calls, along with images captured by mall security surveillance cameras, were released by the police on December 7, 2007.

In one 911 call, gunshots can be heard.

An autopsy of Hawkins showed that he had 200 nanograms per millilitre of Valium in his system, which is the low end of its therapeutic-use range (100–1500 ng/mL).

No trace of any other drug was found in his system.

Eight people were killed by Hawkins during the shooting.

Six were employees at the Von Maur store and the remaining two were customers.

They are:

Four of the victims shot by Hawkins survived.

Two critically injured were store employees.

Fred Wilson, 61, was a manager for the customer service department.

He was sent to the University of Nebraska Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the upper chest.

By the time he reached the ER, he had lost three-quarters of his blood and had no pulse.

Wilson was upgraded to stable by the following weekend, and soon after was making some attempts to communicate.

The other critically wounded victim was customer service employee Micheale "Mickey" Oldham, 65, who was sent to Creighton University Medical Center.

She sustained heavy injuries to the abdomen and back, and, of the surviving victims, she suffered the worst injuries.

Another surviving victim was customer Jeff Schaffart, 34, who was treated and released at UNMC for a gunshot wound to the left arm and the little finger of his left hand.

The Omaha Police Department announced on December 22, 2007, that Mandy Hyda, 34, received a bruise when a bullet fragment struck her left leg.

She was neither transported nor treated for the injury.

It was initially reported that there were five people injured (not including Hyda), but two of those at the scene who were sent to local hospitals were sent for reasons other than being shot by Hawkins.

Robert Arthur Hawkins was born at the RAF Lakenheath station in Suffolk, England, U.K., to American U.S. Air Force personnel parents Ronald Hawkins and Maribel "Molly" Rodriguez.

He was hospitalized at the age of four after persistent violent behavior in pre-school.

He was diagnosed with attention-deficit disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder due to his chaotic homelife.

The day after he turned 14, he was sent to a mental health treatment center for threatening to kill his stepmother.

Four months later, he became a ward of the State of Nebraska, which lasted nearly four years until he was discharged completely, due to his unwillingness to improve.

During his second hospitalization, he was diagnosed with an unspecified mood disorder and oppositional defiant disorder.