Mall shooter’s suicide note: ‘I’ve just snapped’

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Harrington, 45, said he told police in Bellevue about a month ago that one of Hawkins’ friends offered to sell Valium to his 13-year-old son. Harrington said he also told police that Hawkins had previously shot at a car during a drug deal gone bad.

“We told them about the drugs, we told them about the guns, and nothing was done,” Harrington said.

Harrington said his 16-year-old daughter used to hang out with the group of teens in the neighborhood at the home of Debora Maruca-Kovac, the 50-year-old woman Hawkins lived with.

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Maruca-Kovac told the Omaha World-Herald that Hawkins showed her a rifle on Tuesday, but that she thought it was too old to work.

Harrington said he wished someone had listened to the warnings.

Hawkins' friends threatening those who speak out
He called police again Thursday after his daughter got a phone call from Hawkins’ best friend, 17-year-old David Horvath.

After the shootings, Horvath left Shelby Harrington a voicemail message, threatening to “cap” her if she didn’t stop saying bad things about Hawkins, Harrington said.

Shelby Harrington had posted a critical comment about Hawkins on an Internet site after some of Hawkins’ friends defended him. Horvath was charged Friday in Sarpy County Court with intimidation by phone call.

And Thursday evening, while his daughter was filming an interview with TV’s “Good Morning America,” she got a threatening text message from another friend of Hawkins. A 16-year-old boy was cited for disturbing the peace in that incident, Bellevue police said.

Meanwhile, one of the first funerals for Hawkins’ victims was announced. A vigil for Janet Jorgensen, a 14-year Von Maur employee, was scheduled for Sunday evening in Omaha, with a funeral Mass on Monday.

Jorgensen’s family members gathered to pray for the victims and their families — including Hawkins’ family.

“They’re not vindictive people,” family friend Paul Huntimer said Friday to a gathering of reporters at the Jorgensens’ Omaha home. “It was important to Ron that prayers go out to the suspect’s family.”

The mall was scheduled to reopen on Saturday.