Funerals Today For Five Mall Shooting Victims

Associated Press
Published: December 10, 2007
Updated: December 10, 2007

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) - Funerals for five of the victims of last week's shooting rampage in an Omaha, Nebraska, shopping mall are scheduled today.

The mall reopened over the weekend, but not the Von Maur store where the gunman opened fire.

Visitations were held yesterday for three of the Von Maur department store employees and a shopper who were killed by teenager Robert Hawkins on Wednesday.

Loved ones remembered Janet Jorgensen, who had recently helped her husband of 50 years through a battle with prostate cancer.

And Dianne Trent, who liked to tend the flowers on her porch and chat
with her neighbor over tea. Gary Joy was remembered as a quiet and shy man.