The Carthage nursing home shooting was a mass murder that occurred on March 29, 2009, when a gunman opened fire at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina. The shooter, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, killed eight people and wounded another two before being shot and apprehended by a responding police officer. Stewart's estranged wife, a nurse at the nursing home and the apparent main target, survived the shooting unharmed, as she was hiding in a bathroom in the Alzheimer ward of the building, which is secured by passcode-protected doors.
Stewart, who is being held in North Carolina’s maximum security Central Prison in Raleigh, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder. On September 3, 2011 he was found guilty of eight counts of second-degree murder and sentenced to 142 years to 179 1/2 years in prison. The defense had argued that Stewart was under the influence of Ambien during the shooting, leaving him unable to control his actions.
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