More information about Westroads shooter Robert Hawkins came to light Thursday as police in Omaha and Bellevue delve into the background of the 19-year-old gunman who killed eight and wounded five.

For years, Robert Hawkins was a ward of the state. He was staying with a family in Bellevue.

Hawkins had a history of depression. He broke up with his longtime girlfriend about two weeks ago and had just been fired from his job when he walked into Westroads Mall with a rifle on Wednesday afternoon.

One of Hawkins’ friends had a conversation with a teenage girl we’ll call “Mandy." Her father, we'll call “Bob.”

“Last night she received a death threat. She had made a comment about what a horrible situation it was and how bad Robbie was on a MySpace, and one of his friends called her and explained if you say one more thing about Robbie, I'm gonna put a cap in your head," says Bob.

Because of the threat, father and daughter don’t want to be identified.

Sixteen-year-old Mandy used to hang out with Hawkins and his friends. "They're all drug addicts, they have plenty of guns and they're all weird," says Mandy.

They would hang out in a Bellevue home. Bob calls it a flophouse for drug addicts. Mandy says they even did drugs with adults in the house and once a girl had to be rescued from the home.

“A father of a good friend of my daughter's, we had to go to that house and get her unconscious out of that house,” says Bob. “She was only 14 at the time. She was drunk and stoned."

Sarpy County officials say they have answered calls to the house on McCarty Drive.

"We did make a couple of arrests for marijuana in one case and we recovered a juvenile runaway there within the last year, but nothing really that out of the ordinary," says Sarpy County Sheriff Jeff Davis.

Hawkins did need out-of-the-ordinary care and it dosen’t look like he received it at this house. The father of the teenage girl also claims Hawkins and his frends were dealing drugs at one of the Sarpy County high schools.

He also claims Hawkins threatened to kill his family and burn down their house a few weeks ago.

Bob and Mandy also appeared on radio Thursday and after hearing their story, Bellevue Police arrested one of Hawkins' friends by afternoon.

Seventeen-year-old David Horvath of Bellevue was taken into custody for making terroristic threats. Police confiscated three guns from his home, two shotguns and a rifle.

Police say Horvath described Hawkins as his best friend. There is no evidence to suggest Horvath had any prior knowledge of Hawkins' plans.

There are obviously still a lot of unanswered questions and some we may never have answers to.

Omaha Police are now turning their attention to evidence collected at Hawkins' home.

"We've confiscated computers,” says Omaha Police Chief Thomas Warren. “We will be examining any information that may be out on Web sites, blogs, etc."

Debora Maruca, whose teenage sons had befriended Hawkins, said she and her husband let Hawkins stay with them after he was kicked out of his family's house.

"He was depressed and he had always been depressed," Maruca said Wednesday. "But he looked like he was getting better."

Hawkins, who earned a GED after dropping out of Papillion-La Vista High School, got a driver's license after moving in with the Marucas and five months ago started working at a McDonald's near their home.

Maruca said Hawkins was not on any medication for mental illness, but that he had been treated in the past for depression and attention deficit disorder/hyperactivity disorder.

Though he had his troubles, Maruca said Hawkins was gentle and loved animals. But he also had a drinking problem and would occasionally smoke marijuana in his bedroom. She said Hawkins liked to listen to music and play video games, "normal teenager stuff."

"He was a very helpful young man, but he was quiet," Maruca said. "He didn't cause a lot of trouble. He tried to help out all the time. He was very thankful for everything. He wasn't a violent person at all."

Maruca said Hawkins had lived with several friends for a couple days at a time before landing at the Maruca's house last year.

"He was like a lost pound puppy that nobody wanted," she said. "I felt sorry for him. I let him stay and we tried to get him on his feet."

Maruca said Hawkins phoned her about 1 p.m. on Wednesday, telling her that he had left a note for her in his bedroom. She tried to get him to explain, but he hung up.

She called Hawkins' mother, whom Maruca knows only as "Molly." She went to the Marucas' house, retrieved the suicide note and took it to authorities.

In the note, Maruca said Hawkins said, "how sorry he was for everything."

He wrote that he loved his mom and dad and other family members and said he wasn't "going to be a burden anymore."

He ended the note saying that now he would be famous.