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| Gun rampage US teen note released |
| Police have released a suicide note written by the teenager who shot dead eight people in a US shopping centre.
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| UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
, 8-December-2007
2:37:23 AM |
| In the note, Robert Hawkins, 19, from Bellevue, Nebraska, said he "just snapped" before opening fire at the Westroads Mall in Omaha on Wednesday.
And he predicted that "everyone will remember me as some sort of monster".
Police say Hawkins fired more than 30 rounds from an SKS assault rifle as he killed six workers at the Von Maur department store and two customers.
'Meaningless existence"
"Please understand that I just don't want to be a burden on the ones that I care for my entire life," Hawkins said in his note.
The three-page letter also contains an apology to Hawkins' family:
"I'm so sorry for what I've put you through. I never meant to hurt all of you so much and I don't blame any one of you for disowning me," he wrote.
"I've just snapped - I can't take this meaningless existence anymore. I've been a constant disappointment and that trend would have only continued."
And he anticipated that his actions would bring him notoriety:
"Just think tho - I'm gonna be ... famous," he wrote, in a passage addressed to his friends.
As well as the suicide note, police also released CCTV footage of Hawkins entering the shopping centre and aiming his weapon.
Police said Hawkins appeared to shoot at random and the incident was over before officers, alerted by a 911 emergency call, could intervene.
Map: Westroads mall location and layout
Hawkins struck as the centre was crowded with Christmas shoppers, and witnesses spoke of people screaming and scrambling to find safe shelter.
Witnesses said Hawkins fired down on shoppers from a balcony on the third floor of the Von Maur store.
'Lost puppy'
He is said to have suffered from depression in the past, and recently lost his job at McDonald's and broke up with his girlfriend.
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