Gunman’s mom says she’s sorry
From Times Wire Reports
The mother of the gunman who killed eight people at a busy shopping mall in Omaha apologized for her son’s crime and said she did her best raising him.
“I have been absolutely devastated,” Maribel Rodriguez told the Associated Press. “The most difficult part is giving all of my best efforts to convey to all these beautiful people that I truly am sorry.”
Her son, Robert Hawkins, 19, fired more than 30 rounds inside a department store Dec. 5, striking 11 people. Eight of them died. He killed himself.
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