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Westroads Mall shooting: Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins kills nine people, including himself, with a WASR-10 at a Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska.
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Westroads Mall shooting
2007 mass shooting in Omaha, Nebraska
On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Hawkins shot and killed eight people and injured five others in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide by fatally shooting himself. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
WASR-series rifles
Semi-automatic rifle
Wassenaar Arrangement Semi-automatic Rifles are a line of Romanian-designed gas-operated semi-automatic rifles sold in the United States by Century International Arms.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Von Maur
American department store chain
Von Maur, Inc. is an American department store chain based in Davenport, Iowa. Founded in 1872, the chain operates over 36 locations across the United States, primarily in the Midwest.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Omaha, Nebraska
Largest city in Nebraska, US
Omaha is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Nebraska. It is located in the Midwestern United States along the Missouri River, about 10 mi (15 km) north of the mouth of the Platte River. Omaha had a population of 486,051 at the 2020 census making it the nation's…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
December 5
Day of the year
December 5 is the 339th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 26 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)