Shooting suspect may have been gunning for wife

A painter said to have carried out the North Carolina nursing home shootings may have been after his recently-estranged wife during the rampage that killed seven residents and a nurse.

Robert Stewart’s wife was working as a nursing assistant at Pinelake Health and Rehab in Carthage, North Carolina, when he launched the murderous attack on Sunday, not long after the two split up, said Police Chief Chris McKenzie.