Comments on: More on the Omaha mall shooter

By: Gregg

Gregg — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 10:24:41 +0000

Sounds like a rather large hoody.

By: RyanC

RyanC — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:54:53 +0000

More for the “All AK-47, all the time” CNN files. You’d think CNN and AP would bother to get their facts right, but eh… “professional journalists” and all that.

From http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/12/06/mall.shooting/index.html

Mall security officers noticed Robert A. Hawkins, 19, of Bellevue, Nebraska, briefly enter the Von Maur department store at Omaha’s Westroads Mall, Chief Thomas Warren said.

Hawkins left the store and returned six minutes later concealing something — presumably the AK-47 assault rifle used in the rampage — under a hooded sweatshirt, Warren said

By: thirdpower

thirdpower — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:17:39 +0000

Actually still being reported by CNN.

Apparently they weren’t getting enough google hits w/ SKS. So they changed it to this:

“Warren said Hawkins’ body and the AK-47 with SKS 7.66 mm ammunition were found on the store’s third floor.”

By: Murdoc

Murdoc — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:16:47 +0000

Guys, it’s a high-powered assault rifle. Didn’t you hear the news?

By: tgirsch

tgirsch — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 17:13:28 +0000

FWIW, the first report of the story I saw, yesterday evening, identified the gun as an “SKS assault rifle.”