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Gunman kills eight at US nursing homeREUTERS | Monday, 30 March 2009A gunman opened fire inside a nursing home in a small North Carolina town, killing eight people, including elderly patients in wheelchairs.
A 45-year-old local man was arrested and faced eight counts of first-degree murder after the shooting at the retirement care home in Carthage, about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh.
"There are eight dead," Moore County District Attorney Maureen Krueger told a news conference. Neither she nor other officials were able to immediately offer a motive for the killings in what was the third major shooting incident in the southeastern United States this month.
Those killed at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, which offered care for the elderly and Alzheimer's sufferers, included seven patients in their 70s, 80s and 90s, and one 39-year-old staff member, officials said.
"The shooter entered the facility heavily armed and began shooting at people in wheelchairs," WRAL News quoted North Carolina state Senator Harris Blake as saying.
Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie told the news conference that the gunman shot 11 people in all. The wounded included a police officer and the arrested suspect, whom McKenzie and Krueger named as Robert Stewart.
Six of the victims died at the scene and two died of their injuries in the hospital.
It was the third major shooting to occur in the southeastern United States in less than a month.
On March 10, a 28-year-old man in Alabama killed 10 people, including his own mother, in a shooting spree that ended when he took his own life.
A few days later in Miami, a man shot and killed four people, including his estranged wife, before taking his own life.http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/2300981/Gunman-kills-six-at-US-nursing-home
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