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Decorated officer ended shooting spree
CARTHAGE, N.C. - Justin Garner, 25, turned down a chance to join the state highway patrol so he could stay on his hometown's police force. Within five years, he'd already been named Officer of the Year. And when a call came in that a gunman was shooting up a nursing home, Garner was the only one on duty when seemingly everyone else in this town of 1,800 was at church.
He raced to the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center. Armed with a .40-caliber Glock pistol, he entered the building to confront Robert Stewart, 45, in the hallway. Garner fired his weapon once, hitting Stewart in the chest, even though Garner had already been shot three times in his foot and leg.
A day later, Garner was being praised as a hero in this small town about 60 miles southwest of Raleigh, for forging into the nursing home without waiting for backup to stop a man authorities say shot and killed eight people - many of them elderly and frail - inside.
"If that's not heroism, I don't know what is," said Police Chief Chris McKenzie, who later added, "You can train all you want to, but it comes down to whether you have what it takes."
 
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