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A man killed two women and left their bodies in the basement of a house, then beat and raped the daughter of one of the victims in the same home, authorities and a relative of the victims said.

Fabian Hands, 46, was booked on two counts of homicide and two counts of use of a weapon to commit a felony.

Officers were called to the house in north Omaha Monday night. When they arrived, a 20-year-old woman came out of a bedroom and said she had been sexually assaulted. Hands followed her out of the bedroom and assaulted her in front of officers, according to a police report. Officers subdued him and took him into custody.

Police found the bodies of the woman's 36-year-old mother and 48-year-old aunt in the basement during a search of the house, authorities said. Paramedics pronounced the women dead at the scene.

A gunman in camouflage and wielding a rifle opened fire on Wednesday in a mall here crowded with holiday shoppers, killing eight people and wounding five others, before turning the gun on himself.

The gunman, identified by the authorities as Robert A. Hawkins, who was 19 or 20, of nearby Bellevue, was described by friends as a depressed person who had lost his job at a McDonald’s restaurant earlier in the day.