Eight killed in North Carolina nursing home rampage

(CNN) -- Eight people have been killed and several others wounded in a shooting at a nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina, police and hospital officials said Sunday.

Carthage Police Chief Chris McKenzie told CNN affiliate News 14 Carolina that there were six dead at the scene and three wounded, including a police officer. Gretchen Kelly, a spokeswoman for FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital, told CNN later that two of the six patients brought there had died, and two were still being treated.

Few details of the shootings, which happened about 10 a.m. Sunday, were immediately available. There was no immediate indication as to the attacker's motive, and it was not clear whether the gunman was in custody or was among the dead or wounded.

"I ain't never seen nobody being mistreated down there or nothing," Bobby Dunn, whose 89-year-old mother was living at the facility, told News 14. "That's what I can't understand -- why somebody would come and do something like that."

McKenzie said the facility was "under our control" and patients had been moved to another building. Police were still interviewing witnesses early Sunday afternoon, he said. Carthage is about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh. See map showing Carthage, Raleigh »

Sunday's killings were the latest in a series of high-profile but unrelated rampages in March, including the killings of 10 people by an Alabama man who was then killed by police. At a southern Illinois church, a man shot and killed the pastor and stabbed two parishioners, and a 17-year-old in Germany killed 15 people in two small towns before dying in a shootout with police.

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And again one can't help but ask, "What the hell is wrong with people???"

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And again one can't help but ask, "What the hell is wrong with people???"

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2 Timothy 3

1. [/suP]This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2. [/suP]For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3. [/suP]Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4. [/suP]Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;

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And again one can't help but ask, "What the hell is wrong with people???"

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Just chalk up eight morereasons peopleshould be able to defend themselves. Or, inthis case, their care-givers should be able to defend them.

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It may be a blessing or curse for the Pro-Gun movement but hew wasn't using a hand gun or assault weapon. Looks like an ordinary semi-auto hunting rifle. I couldn't tellexactly from the pictures. I just got back from visiting my Mother in a similar nursing home and maybe some armed guards would work but I don't know if the staff should be armed and especially not the residents. It would be very easy for a resident there to obtain one of the guns from a staff member and start firing away with it. The way the staff has to interact with the residents would make it easy for one to be grabbed even in a retention holster.

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I'd venture to say its a Remington 597 .22 Long Rifle plinkin' gun!

At least the grabbers can't (readily) parlay that into an 'assault' weapon.:uhoh:

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