At least 9 people reported dead in Omaha mall shooting rampage
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Police say at least nine people were shot to death and at least five others were injured in a shooting at Westroads Mall this afternoon. The shooter apparently shot 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 and five were injured.
Names of those invovled were not initially released.
Police don’t believe that anyone other than the gunman who killed himself was involved.
Omaha Police Sergeant Teresa Negron said, “As far as we know, there is no other shooter inside the mall.”
Channel 6 News has confirmed that a 19-year-old Sarpy County man left a suicide note this afternoon stating, “I’m going out in style.”
That man’s vehicle was found in the mall parking lot.
