The gunman who killed eight people in a US shopping mall shooting “just snapped”, he said in a suicide note released today.

The man who killed eight people and committed suicide in a shooting rampage at a US department store spent four years in care after threatening to kill his stepmother in 2002.

The gunman who killed eight shoppers in a busy US mall apparently chose his victims at random, police said today.

A man who opened fire at a busy department store in the US killing eight people, left a note predicting “Now I’ll be famous”.