On the morning of March 29, 2009, 78-year-old Bessie Elizabeth Hedrick of Carthage, North Carolina, was killed in a mass shooting at Pinelake Health and Rehabilitation Center where she lived. The attack began around 10:00 a.m. when 45-year-old Robert Kenneth Stewart entered the facility armed with a shotgun, a revolver and possibly other firearms and opened fire in the halls and patient rooms.

The rampage left eight people dead — seven elderly female residents, ages 75 to 98, including Hedrick, and one nurse — and wounded three others, among them a police officer and a visitor. A lone Carthage officer who arrived within about a minute exchanged fire with the shooter, was shot in the leg, and incapacitated Stewart, who was taken to a hospital with other injured people.

Stewart was charged with multiple counts of murder and assault. Does anyone have memories of Pinelake in 2009 or information about Bessie Hedrick’s life at the facility that could help fill in missing details?