Getting your player ready...
OMAHA — About 50 employees held hands and lined across a department store’s entrance Thursday before parting to let a crowd of holiday shoppers enter for the first time since a gunman killed eight people there 15 days earlier.
Eight wreaths were placed near the entrance to memorialize the eight victims, most of them store employees.
Customers applauded as the gates opened. By midday the store was crowded — more so than similar stores nearby.
“We always think about the victims and their families,” said shopper Pamela Perry.
The Westroads Mall itself reopened three days after the shooting in which Robert Hawkins fired more than 30 rounds, striking 11 people, before he killed himself.
