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Article: Mall reopens with tighter security
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- December 9, 2007
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OMAHA, Neb. -- People returned to the Westroads Mall on Saturday,
most to shop for the holidays but some to grieve in the place where
a young gunman killed eight people and himself three days earlier.
Within the mall, however, the Von Maur department store where 19-
year-old Robert Hawkins fired an AK-47 on Wednesday remained closed.
A makeshift memorial had been assembled at its inside entrance.
Wreaths sat on tripods just outside the doors and a note from
management said the store will reopen soon. No date was given.
"I come out here almost every morning, and (today) it was kind of
just an eerie feeling of, I don't know, quiet," said Marge Andrews,
49, who regularly walks the mall with a ...
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