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Heroic Nurse, Shot 27 times, Saved Lives of Others
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Nursing Home</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml?tag=main_home_storiesBySection"><DIV> <B>(CBS) </B> Jerry Avant Jr. died while protecting others. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml?tag=main_home_storiesBySection"><DIV>Doctors said the 39-year-old male nurse was shot more than two dozen times Sunday while trying to shield others from a gunman at a Carthage, N.C. nursing home. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml?tag=main_home_storiesBySection"><DIV>The suspect, 45-year-old Robert Stewart, seemingly picked his targets at random, moving from room to room inside the <A class="link" target="new" href="http://www.peakresourcesinc.com/nursing/pinelake.html">Pinelake Health and Rehab Center</A> in Carthage, N.C., shooting 11 people in all, eight fatally. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml?tag=main_home_storiesBySection">He said he undoubtedly saved a lot <BR /><DIV>of lives before he went down, because he counted, himself, 27 bullet holes." </DIV> </blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/30/earlyshow/main4902345.shtml?tag=main_home_storiesBySection"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.cbsnews.com/img/9F0A79DE-B1FB-4A60-A285-2E6EB61A8359" alt="Jerry Avant Jr., 39, a male nurse whom doctors say apparently died trying to shield others from gunfire at the Pinelake Health and Rehab Center in Carthage, N.C., on March 29, 2009." /></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;"> </td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2748D0D0-8215-4382-B228-DBF276C4B9BF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>
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