9 Dead at Omaha Shopping Mall Shooting

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UPDATE: 07.12.07 - Police have released the suicide note see here for a screen shot.

The teenager who opened fire inside an Omaha, Nebraska, mall Wednesday wrote that he knew "everyone will remember me as some sort of monster," according to his handwritten suicide note released Friday.

UPDATE: 06.012.07 - Police have identified the shooter as 19 year old Robert Hawkins. He died of a self inflicted gun shot wound. In the shooting rampage yesterday he killed 8 people and himself. No motive has been cited. 

At least 9 people were killed in the shooting today.[q
url="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MALL_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-05-15-51-07"]At
least one person was shot Wednesday at a busy Omaha mall, and police
locked down the shopping center while they searched for a gunman.

It was not immediately clear whether the shooter was still inside
the mall or whether other people were wounded at the Westroads Mall.[/q]

Local TV is reporting 2 dead and five shot. Different law enforecment agencies are reporting multiple fatalities. 

2 men are reportedly in custody.  

President
Bush was in Omaha today. [q
url="http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MALL_SHOOTING?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-12-05-15-51-07"]President
Bush was in town Wednesday for a fundraiser in Omaha, but left about an
hour before the shooting.[/q] 


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