7 residents, 1 nurse killed at nursing home

? A gunman barged into a North Carolina nursing home Sunday morning and started “shooting everything,” going room to room in a terrifying rampage that killed seven residents — most in their late 80s — and a nurse who cared for them.

Authorities said Robert Stewart also wounded three others, including the Carthage police officer who confronted him in a hallway of Pinelake Health and Rehab and stopped the brutal attack. Officials said the massacre could have been bloodier if the officer had not managed to subdue Stewart.

By late Sunday afternoon, Stewart, 45, of Moore County, was charged with eight counts of first-degree murder and a single charge of felony assault of a law enforcement officer. Authorities offered few other details, allowing only that Stewart was not a patient or an employee at the nursing home and isn’t believed to be related to any of the victims.