Omaha Mall Shooting

Police tape hangs in front of the Von Maur store at the Westroads Mall Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007 in Omaha, Neb. Robert A. Hawkins, 19, armed with a semi-automatic rifle, opened fire on shoppers at the Omaha shopping mall Wednesday, killing eight people before killing himself.

Those killed in the shooting, from top left: Diane Trent, Angie Schuster, John McDonald, Beverly Flynn, Maggie Webb, and bottom from left, Gary Joy, Gary Scharf and Jan Jorgensen.

Police say Robert Hawkins, 19, of Bellevue, Neb., seen here in a yearbook picture from Papillion-La Vista High School, shot eight people before killing himself in a mall in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Hawkins, who had a history of depression, broke up with his longtime girlfriend two weeks ago and this week he was fired from his job at a fast-food restaurant, said a woman whose family took Hawkins in.

This image taken from a video surveillance camera and released by the Omaha Police Department a few days later shows gunman Robert A. Hawkins raising a rifle in the Von Maur Department store.

A member of the Omaha police stands outside the Westroads mall, after the shooting spree at a Von Maur store in the mall, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Robert Hawkins carried out his shooting spree from the third floor of a store in the Westroads Mall, the bullets from his rifle cutting through the sound of Christmas music as he terrorized shoppers and employees.

A victim is wheeled out of the Westroads Mall. In addition to the nine dead, five are reportedly wounded, two of them critically. Witnesses said the gunman fired down on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur store.

Larissa Starchenko, an employee who was inside the Von Maur store when the gunman opened fire, is comforted by her daughter Yara, back, in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007. Police locked down the Westroads Mall after eight people were shot and killed by a gunman who then killed himself.

A Douglas County police officer guards the Westroads Mall parking lot shortly after the shooting. The shooter, Robert A. Hawkins, was born in Bellevue, Neb., a suburb of Omaha.

Shoppers and employees stand in the frigid weather outside the Von Maur store where the shootings took place.

Some shoppers who fled the Westroads Mall after the shootings sought shelter in a metal container.

Women evacuated from the Von Maur store after a gunman opened fire at the Westroads mall await news.

People evacuate the Westroads Mall after the deadly shooting spree.

The gunman reportedly left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives, which said he wanted to "go out in style."

A child is reunited with his mother after the shooting.

A sheriff's vehicle parked outside Hawkins' home in Bellevue, Neb. His landlord, Debora Muruca-Kovac, told reporters that Hawkins was recently fired from his job at McDonald's and broke up with a girlfriend. She said he telephoned her about 1 p.m. on Wednesday, saying he had left a note - a suicide note. Hours later, she saw victims of the shooting at the Nebraska Medical Center, where she works as a nurse.

Crime lab technicians work on the shooting scene at the Von Maur store. Police are reportedly still in the process of identifying the victims, said to be three males and five females.

Workers load the car believed to belong to Robert Hawkins onto a flat-bed truck outside the Von Maur store in Omaha, Neb., Wednesday, Dec. 5, 2007.Hawkins opened fire with a rifle at a busy department store, killing eight people before killing himself. At the top of a suicide note he left was his "will," which said that the green Jeep Cherokee was to go to his mother, and that "my friends can have whatever they want."

Police vehicle blocks the entrance to the Westroads Mall, site of Wednesday's deadly shooting, in Omaha, Neb., Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. Eight people were killed and five wounded before the shooter, Robert A. Hawkins, ended the horror by taking his own life. He left behind a note that read, in part, "Now I'll be famous."

A women wipes her eyes during vigil at St. John's Church in Creighton University for the victims of shooting at the Westroads Mall December 6, 2007 in Omaha, Nebraska.

A sign reading "Peace Be With You" is seen Friday, Dec. 7, 2007, on the steps of the Von Maur store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Neb., the site of Wednesday's deadly shooting.