Omaha – Westroads Mall Shooter Identified As Robert A. Hawkins of Bellevue



The shooter at Westroads Mall was identified as Robert A. Hawkins of Bellevue, according to the Sarpy County Sheriff’s Department, and a suicide note said he was going to be famous.

Hawkins, 19, had been arrested on a couple of misdemeanors in November and was due in court this month. One charge included minor in possession of alcohol. He was arrested on Nov. 24. He was due in court for an arraignment on Dec. 19.

Sarpy County deputies said they are getting a warrant to search Hawkins’ home in the Quail Creek neighborhood in Bellevue.

From the AP Wires

Robert Hawkins had a history of depression but seemed to be doing better since moving in with a friend’s family just over a year ago.

But about two weeks ago he broke up with his longtime girlfriend, and this week he was fired from his job at a fast-food restaurant, said a woman whose family took Hawkins in.

On Wednesday, the 19-year-old killed eight people and himself in a shooting rampage at an Omaha shopping mall, police said.

Surgical nurse Debora Maruca-Kovac, whose family took in Hawkins after her 17- and 19-year-old sons befriended him, said she saw victims of the mall shooting being brought in to the hospital where she works.

By then, she had already read a suicide note that Hawkins had left behind.

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