Mall Shooting Update
We examine these types of incidents over and over again. We look for some clue that will tell us how to prevent these tragedies. We search for the one thing that will help us spot the next guy.
As far as I know we can’t predict individual behavior. We calculate that this particular series of stressors will lead to depression or violence. I guess what I’m saying is that we look for something that isn’t there. There are no good answers from something like this.
BTW, we, now, have all of these images of the shooter in the mall. What is the purpose of these mall cameras? I thought it was to identify bad people so that we could intervene. If we can’t identify “bad” people then why are we being watched?
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From AP:
As police released surveillance images of a shaggy-haired, bespectacled Robert Hawkins taking aim at holiday shoppers, more details were revealed Friday about the teenager’s suicide note, in which he wrote that he “just snapped.”
“I know everyone will remember me as some sort of monster, but please understand that I just don’t want to be a burden on the ones that I care for my entire life,” he wrote. “I just want to take a few pieces of (expletive) with me.”
The 19-year-old gunman left the note at the suburban house where he lived Wednesday before going to Omaha’s Westroads Mall with an AK-47 and opening fire on the midday holiday shopping crowd, fatally shooting eight people at the Von Maur store before turning the gun on himself. (more…)
