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Eight Killed in Shooting at North Carolina Nursing Home

by Jordan Yerman | March 29, 2009 at 09:23 am

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Update: The man who killed seven patients and one nurse at a Carthage, NC nursing home has been named as Robert Stewart , 45, and is not affiliated with the nursing home. The motive behind the shooting remains a mystery.

Update: Two of the people taken to hospital after the Carthage, NC nursing home shooting have died.

Previously:

Six people were killed and three were wounded, including the shooter and a police officer wounded in a shooting at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina.

Updates to follow.

The shooting happened around 10 a.m. at Pinelake Health and Rehab Center, 801 Pinehurst Ave.

CBS Affiliate WRAL has confirmed that the six people killed are all nursing home patients.

WRAL reports that the suspect was also injured.

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jordan

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at 09:28 on March 29th, 2009

This is a breaking story, and will now show up on the home page for four hours. If new developments justify it, I'll renew this flag for another cycle.

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Yuliya Talmazan

at 09:49 on March 29th, 2009

Update on the situation:

NBC 17 in Raleigh reported that the Carthage Police Department confirmed all six victims dead shortly after their arrival at the hospital.Police would not release any information on the shooter. A press conference will be scheduled for later Sunday afternoon.

albertacowpoke

at 10:02 on March 29th, 2009

apparently the nursing home was for Alzheimer patients according to Fox News

Ravi Dixit

at 11:04 on March 29th, 2009

Updates:

Carthage Police Department Chief Chris McKenzie describes the shooter as an "young adult male." He says the shooter walked into the facility around 10 a.m. McKenzie says the shooter was not a patient at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center.

No other information is being released at this time.

Firsthealth Moore Regional Hospital tells Eyewitness News several people were transported to the hospital. Gretchen Kelly with the hospital says the first shooting victim arrived by ambulance at 10:34 a.m. Kelly says they initially received six patients from the shooting.

albertacowpoke

at 12:07 on March 29th, 2009

Source: www.foxnews.com

CARTHAGE, N.C. â€” A gunman opened fire at a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning, killing at least six people and wounding several others, police said.

The gunman was also injured before he was apprehended by police after the 10 a.m. shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehab in the town of Carthage, Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie told several television stations. A police officer was also hurt.

Gretchen Kelly, spokeswoman at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, said six people were brought to the hospital from the nursing home about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh. Kelly said two of the injured died at the hospital, but it wasn't clear if those two were among the six initially reported dead by police.

Kelly said two other patients had been discharged, while two were still being treated. She wouldn't release further details on the injuries or conditions of those hospitalized.

McKenzie said the gunman wasn't a patient at the nursing home, but didn't offer any further details on what the gunman's motive might have been.

A nursing home Web site said the facility that opened in 1993 has 110 beds, including 20 for those with Alzheimer's disease.

Calls to the nursing home by The Associated Press rang unanswered Sunday, and McKenzie and several state law enforcement agencies didn't immediately return messages or declined to comment. Police planned a news conference for later Sunday afternoon.

Carthage is a small town of roughly 1,800 people in the North Carolina Sandhills, an area popular among retirees and home to several noted golf courses, including the famed Pinehurst resort and its No. 2 course that regularly hosts the U.S. Open.

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jazzyzazzy

at 16:03 on March 29th, 2009

Where was the health and safety policy there,a mean a nursing home where people are already suffering.It begs belief that this happens in such delicate places of all,a nursing home.Where? is the security for wither we like it or no its a shambles a complete and utter disgrace.With CCT cameras and all the high tech gear they let this happen,or did they no bother with CCTV was that to expensive this really is money before life society.The fact that they got in there disgusts me.seems they are no looking after their own people properly again.

dysamoria

at 07:55 on March 31st, 2009

there is very little care for humans by humans, i'm finding. more lip service than anything else. people are more interested in watching others suffer and die than actually lift fingers or entire hands and legs to do things about it. this includes all the businesses that run so called "health care facilities." if it isn't going to add to the profit (and i refuse to accept hospitals like the ones i see in my area as being "non-profit"), then they just don't do anything about it. security or humane care is nothing to these people. to many people. to most?

i'd like a private security force to protect me from society...

still, without a published motive... who knows what the real story is yet in this shooting(?) Maybe the shooter was getting twisted-up revenge for a family member abused at that very location... or was twisted-up by other things... human beings are delicate creatures, yet they're pushed to the point of destructiveness (destroying the self or others around them, or both). i am begining to believe there are very few violent people that weren't "created."

irmgard.kronsbein-bellchambers

at 16:06 on March 29th, 2009

I sincerely hope the poor victims were not killed for the purpose of identity theft. All retirees are at risk since since the Iron Curtain came down and former Eastblock criminals look for new identities. Alzheimer patients and any other patients suffering from neurological conditions are frequently examined by nuclear magnetic resonance technology which can be detected (and manipulated) by Eastblock spies at a distance. They then search for the curriculum vitae of such patients in Echelon archives to learn them by rote and supply themselves with a "new identity", be it via the internet or in foreign countries. Frequently the murderer was subject to mind control as well. It would be advisable, in fact, to spread information about this danger and for all diagnostic centers using magnetic resonance equipment to shield their technology against outside electromagnetic influence. Irmgard Kronsbein-Bellchambers, 60438 Frankfurt, Germany.