Westroads Mall shooting
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On December 5, 2007, 19-year-old Robert Arthur Hawkins fatally shot eight people and injured four others in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide.
Police cars cordoned in front of the Von Maur department store building
Memorial plaque in the Von Maur department store at the Westroads Mall
Charles Starkweather
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Charles Raymond Starkweather was an American spree killer who murdered eleven people in Nebraska and Wyoming between December 1957 and January 1958, when he was nineteen years old. He killed ten of hi
Westroads Mall shooting
…department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska, before committing suicide. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958. 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…
Caril Fugate, pictured en route to Lincoln, Nebraska. February 3, 1958
Starkweather's mugshot at Nebraska State Penitentiary, June 7th, 1958.
Starkweather's grave at Wyuka Cemetery