The Westroads Mall shooting was a mass shooting that happened on December 5, 2007, in a Von Maur department store at Westroads Mall in Omaha, Nebraska. The gunman, nineteen-year-old Robert A. Hawkins, killed eight people and wounded four, two of them critically. Hawkins later committed suicide. It was the deadliest mass murder in Nebraska since the rampage of Charles Starkweather in 1958.