Westroads Mall Shooting

Date: December 5, 2007 • Location: Omaha, United States

A gunman killed nine people at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.

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. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958.