An afternoon of holiday shopping was shattered by gunfire at Westroads Mall Wednesday afternoon. A gunman armed with a rifle killed nine people and injured five others, two critically, before shooting himself to death.
Creighton University Medical Center confirms two fatalities there; one man and one woman. Another person is in critical condition.
Three victims were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, one in critical condition with a chest wound. One person has an arm wound and the third was being treated for cuts to the face.
Shortly after 4 p.m. Omaha Police Sergeant Teresa Negron said that 14 people were shot; nine had died, including the gunman and five were injured.
I don't know if anyone cares about this, but I thought I would post this. This is ridiculous. Apparently the main shooting happened in a Von Maur department store. This is crazy because this happens to be the exact store that my girlfriend shops at quite often. It just really hit home when this happened. You see this type of stuff happen on occasion on television and hear about it on the radio, but when it see it happen in your own town it's just crazy. The only thing going through my mind was, what if this was our (my girlfriend and I) day off. We could have very well have been going through the mall at the exact time this occurred. It's just crazy. I guess I was naive before and didn't really pay attention about this type of stuff when it didn't happen close to me. We still don't even know who was killed. For those who don't know, Omaha is not that big, 450,000 to 500,000. I shudder to think that I know someone who was killed, then I think it doesn't matter if I know who was killed, because if I didn't know them someone else did. They were someone's wife, husband, child, grandfather, grandmother, etc...And to think that it was done by someone who had no other reason except to kill himself. Because, as his note said, "I'm going out in style." I wish the best for the families of the victims and that those who did make it make a full recovery.
Sorry again if this off topic. I felt I had to post what I felt about it.
Creighton University Medical Center confirms two fatalities there; one man and one woman. Another person is in critical condition.
Three victims were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center, one in critical condition with a chest wound. One person has an arm wound and the third was being treated for cuts to the face.
Shortly after 4 p.m. Omaha Police Sergeant Teresa Negron said that 14 people were shot; nine had died, including the gunman and five were injured.
I don't know if anyone cares about this, but I thought I would post this. This is ridiculous. Apparently the main shooting happened in a Von Maur department store. This is crazy because this happens to be the exact store that my girlfriend shops at quite often. It just really hit home when this happened. You see this type of stuff happen on occasion on television and hear about it on the radio, but when it see it happen in your own town it's just crazy. The only thing going through my mind was, what if this was our (my girlfriend and I) day off. We could have very well have been going through the mall at the exact time this occurred. It's just crazy. I guess I was naive before and didn't really pay attention about this type of stuff when it didn't happen close to me. We still don't even know who was killed. For those who don't know, Omaha is not that big, 450,000 to 500,000. I shudder to think that I know someone who was killed, then I think it doesn't matter if I know who was killed, because if I didn't know them someone else did. They were someone's wife, husband, child, grandfather, grandmother, etc...And to think that it was done by someone who had no other reason except to kill himself. Because, as his note said, "I'm going out in style." I wish the best for the families of the victims and that those who did make it make a full recovery.
Sorry again if this off topic. I felt I had to post what I felt about it.
