However, some people grieved Saturday at the Westroads Mall, where three days earlier eight people were fatally shot by a suicidal teenager.

"I come out here almost every morning, and (today) it was kind of just an eerie feeling of, I don't know, quiet," said Marge Andrews, 49, who regularly walks the mall with a friend. She and her husband John, 51, came Saturday to buy Christmas presents -- sporting goods for their sons, volleyball clothes for their daughter.

"It doesn't feel like a Christmas feeling," John Andrews said.

The Von Maur department store, where 19-year-old Robert Hawkins opened fire with an AK-47 before taking his own life, remained closed.

A makeshift memorial had been assembled at its inside entrance. Wreaths were mounted on tripods just outside the doors and a note from management said the store would reopen soon. No date was given.

Police acknowledged there was extra security in the area, but said they could not discuss specifics. Mall security guards were unarmed.

Hawkins' family released a statement to The Associated Press through the Rev. Mark Miller of Faith Presbyterian Church in La Vista in which they said they hoped the community could heal. Services had not yet been arranged for Hawkins.

Funerals for several victims were scheduled for Monday.

Separate visitations for Von Maur department store employees Janet Jorgensen, 67, Gary Joy, 56, and Dianne Trent, 53, were scheduled for Sunday in Omaha, while another was planned that day for John McDonald, 65, in his hometown of Council Bluffs, Iowa.

Additional information about the shooter continues to surface.

Prosecutors say Hawkins had been allowed to walk away from state-mandated care in the summer of 2006 -- four years of treatment and counseling, costing hundreds of thousands of dollars -- but not because he was prepared to face society on his own.

"There was really nothing more that we could offer him that he was willing to participate in," said Sandra Markley, Sarpy County's lead juvenile prosecutor.

Hawkins became a ward of the state through Sarpy County Juvenile Court in 2002, after a stay in a Missouri treatment facility for threatening to kill his stepmother.

The juvenile court system could have maintained oversight of Hawkins for nine more months because he had not yet turned 19 -- that occurred last May. However prosecutors, defense lawyers and Hawkins' state-appointed guardians decided to end further supervision.