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FILE - In a March 29, 2009 file photo, an investigator carries a weapon at the scene where a gunman opened fire at a nursing home, killing at least six people and wounding several others in Carthage, N.C. Robert Stewart, 47, faces eight counts of firs Gerry Broome, File, Associated Press
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FILE - In a May 28, 2009 file photo, Robert Kenneth Stewart attends a hearing in Moore County Superior Court in Carthage, N.C. Stewart faces eight counts of first-degree murder when his trial begins Monday, and prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty i Gerry Broome, File, Associated Press
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CARTHAGE, N.C. — A man accused of killing eight people two years ago at a nursing home in North Carolina is set to go on trial Monday.

Prosecutors say 47-year-old Robert Stewart's target in March 2009 was Wanda Luck, his estranged wife. The nurse's assistant survived by hiding in a bathroom at the Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center in Carthage.

Stewart was wounded by a police officer and arrested soon after. He faces eight counts of first-degree murder, and prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty if he's convicted.

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Luck's mother, Margaret Neal, says her daughter is keeping busy to try and forget the day it all happened. The relatives of victims reached by The Associated Press say they are still grieving and preferred not to talk.

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