On Wednesday , December 5 , 2007 , a mass shooting occurred at the Von Maur department store in the Westroads Mall in Omaha . Nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins killed nine people ( including himself ) and wounded four , two of them critically . It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958
a mass shooting
Westroads Mall shooting
History of Omaha, Nebraska