Shooter has self inflicted gun shot and has killed himself.
We now 3 with two deceased to Saint Josephs Hospital and 3 to Medical Center and one in surgery.
Fire Department said Seven Transported with a total of nine dead in Mall.
Two young men arrested due to fitting the description of the shooter but were not.....
Mainly 2nd and 3rd floor Von Mar Store
Full Version: 14 injured and 9 dead at Westroads Mall
OMAHA, Neb. -- Omaha police said nine people were dead, including the alleged shooter, after shots were fired inside the Von Maur store at Westroads Mall on Wednesday afternoon.
Fourteen total were injured, two critically, police said.
Fourteen total were injured, two critically, police said.
From the later news reports this sounds like another case where the missing community mental health facilities, so long promised -- never properly developed -- could have prevented such an event.
As our population increases, there will be more individuals needing those treatment modalites and followup (many of them being warehoused in correctional facilities instead of medical treatment clinics). This is a preventable tragedy and the potential for similar incidents increases the longer the neglected services are absent.
This is another part of the Reagan legacy as is the commercial flight problems, aren't most of you old enough to recall those alpha moments.
lenal
As our population increases, there will be more individuals needing those treatment modalites and followup (many of them being warehoused in correctional facilities instead of medical treatment clinics). This is a preventable tragedy and the potential for similar incidents increases the longer the neglected services are absent.
This is another part of the Reagan legacy as is the commercial flight problems, aren't most of you old enough to recall those alpha moments.
lenal
QUOTE(lenal @ Dec 5 2007, 09:13 PM) 
From the later news reports this sounds like another case where the missing community mental health facilities, so long promised -- never properly developed -- could have prevented such an event.
As our population increases, there will be more individuals needing those treatment modalites and followup (many of them being warehoused in correctional facilities instead of medical treatment clinics). This is a preventable tragedy and the potential for similar incidents increases the longer the neglected services are absent.
This is another part of the Reagan legacy as is the commercial flight problems, aren't most of you old enough to recall those alpha moments.
lenal
As our population increases, there will be more individuals needing those treatment modalites and followup (many of them being warehoused in correctional facilities instead of medical treatment clinics). This is a preventable tragedy and the potential for similar incidents increases the longer the neglected services are absent.
This is another part of the Reagan legacy as is the commercial flight problems, aren't most of you old enough to recall those alpha moments.
lenal
This has been extremely open as well as the State. Right now health and human services is on TV and talking about treatment and care he received as a ward of the state.
I think there are four important issue.
Family's are grieving
a young man was so depressed he was suicidal
Why when a 20 yr old man destroys his own life can he take so many people with him in less then 6 minutes. ( AK47 two clips with 40 bullets per clip)
AK47 was an older gun and Russian made( gun owners collectible?)
These are people that if not known were public service (gift wrapping and managers at Von Mar), touching lives every day.
Westroads is not one of our newer malls and is not one of our largest but is on 120th and dodge and is on main bus routes in Omaha( major transit center).
So my issues are that a depressed young man was able to steal an automatic assault weapon from a relative and in taking his own life was able to take the eight people he killed.
All the good things of Nebraska are showing in abundance, Our responsive city services, our honesty and hopefulness and our compassion that has been shown with every report on the young mans depression and violent act.
I do want to add that the fact at first everyone responded to the young man being black and dressed in camouflage.
Two young me were stopped and one arrested, both black and wearing some camouflage clothing .
The young man who caused this great tradgdy was white, age 20, and had a black hood sweatshirt.
So easy in denial of race discrimination was this an incident of racial fact for young brown and black skin men and their relationships with the public and law enforcement.
Two young me were stopped and one arrested, both black and wearing some camouflage clothing .
The young man who caused this great tradgdy was white, age 20, and had a black hood sweatshirt.
So easy in denial of race discrimination was this an incident of racial fact for young brown and black skin men and their relationships with the public and law enforcement.
It appears this young man has been back and forth between Missouri and Nebraska and had also received treatment in Missouri.
This means he could have reached this level of depressive violence in Missouri as easily as Nebraska
This means he could have reached this level of depressive violence in Missouri as easily as Nebraska
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