Suicide gunman 'wanted to go out in style'

A gunman who killed eight people at a busy shopping mall before taking his own life in Omaha, Nebraska last night left a suicide note that was found at his home by relatives, said a law enforcement official.

Omaha television station KETV reported that the note said he wanted to “go out in style”.

The gunman used a rifle in the attack that also left five more people wounded, two critically.

Police told people to park their cars at businesses across from the mall and to wait for their loved ones, then directed them to an Omaha hotel to await information.

It was the second mass shooting at a US shopping mall this year.

In February, nine people were shot, five of them fatally, at Trolley Square mall in Salt Lake City.