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CARTHAGE, N.C. — Mental health professions are helping emergency responders, residents and staff cope after a gunman killed seven patients and a nurse at a Carthage nursing home on Sunday.
“The staff, who were the caregivers, many of them are feeling like we didn’t do what we needed to do. We could have done more. The reality is, they were victims too,” said Mark Marquez, with Sandhills Center for Mental Health.
Marquez and other service provider have been counseling people since police say Robert Kenneth Stewart, 45, walked into the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center around 10 a.m. Sunday with multiple weapons and began shooting. About 18 minutes later, officer Justin Garner, wounded himself, stopped Stewart with a single gunshot to the chest.
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