On a tragic Wednesday afternoon, the life of Gary Michael Joy, a 56-year-old Caucasian male, was cut short in a senseless act of violence. It was December 5, 2007, at the Von Maur department store in Omaha, Nebraska's Westroads Mall, a place bustling with holiday shoppers. Joy, an employee of the store, was among the eight people killed that day in one of the deadliest mass shootings in the state's history.
The perpetrator was 19-year-old Robert Hawkins, who entered the popular shopping d
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