8 Are Slain, 5 Wounded by Gunman at Omaha Mall
By Dan Eggen and Jenna Johnson
Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, December 6, 2007; A03
A man dressed in camouflage killed eight people and himself at a crowded Omaha department store yesterday, writing in a suicide note found by his mother that he wanted to "go out in style," according to authorities and local news accounts.
Police and witnesses said the shooter, identified as Robert A. Hawkins, fired on shoppers from a third-floor balcony of the Von Maur department store at the Westroads Mall shortly before 2 p.m. Central time.
Hawkins, 19, was later found dead of a self-inflicted gunshot wound by police, who had sealed the mall after the shootings, officials said. Two local television stations reported that the suicide note was found at his home by his mother.
In addition to the nine dead, five others were seriously wounded in the shooting, authorities said.
The rampage was the second mass shooting at a U.S. mall this year. In February, five were killed and four others were wounded at Trolley Square Mall in Salt Lake City. The gunman in that case was shot and killed by police.
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Whitlock's response,
Whitlock's response, please...
Paraphrasing Nietzsche this
Paraphrasing Nietzsche this morning, P6?
The Omaha incident also makes me think of Dylan's old song called The Ballad of Hollis Brown about a man living on the northern prairie who was too poor to feed his wife and five children so he killed them all and took his own life.
Paraphrasing Nietzsche this
It leapt to mind. Nietzsche is my evil persona.
maybe this was...
... a mind control experiment gone horribly awry. Uh, sorry, been reading 100 Bullets again...
it's the drugs....,
Of course by now you've noticed that yet another introverted teenaged boy went buckwild with a high capacity firearm. Watch the media coverage closely, because the part that won't be discussed, but which ties together all these recent mass shootings is toxic chemical stew that this boy had been fed for the past several years.
While a state ward , he was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, mood disorder, oppositional defiant disorder and parent-child relations problems.
Robert Hawkins, the 19 year old who killed himself and eight other people with an assault rifle last night in Omaha, Nebraska had a history of treatment with psychiatric drugs for depression and ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder) and was on prozac according to press reports.
Of course the headlines will once again focus on how evil and dangerous guns are, how the second amendment should be reevaluated and will once again ignore the fact that this young man was subject to dangerous brain altering chemicals for a number of years prior to this tragic incident.
Simpler than that
Just got the link via email:
http://scienceblogs.com/cortex/2007/12/country_music_and_suicide.php