Omaha Gunman Freed From Centers, Homes
"The young man who killed eight people and committed suicide in a shooting rampage at a department store spent four years in a series of treatment centers, group homes and foster care after threatening to kill his stepmother in 2002.
Finally, in August 2006, social workers, the courts and his father all agreed: It was time for Robert Hawkins to be released - nine months before he turned 19 and would have been required to leave anyway.
The group homes and treatment centers were for youths with substance abuse, mental or behavioral problems.
Altogether, the state spent about $265,000 on Hawkins, officials said."
"But the guns are to blame." -- Mike Rivero of What Really Happened
Also see:
Omaha Killer Part of Operation Bluebird
Also see:
Omaha Killer Part of Operation Bluebird
