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A West Virginia nursing assistant and Army veteran who admitted to killing seven elderly men at a Veteran’s Administration hospital over a year-long period ending in 2018 will be jailed for the rest of her life, a court ruled on Tuesday.
Reta Mays, an Army National Guard vet who served in a non-combat position in Iraq and Afghanistan, pleaded guilty in 2020 to the seven killings at Clarksburg’s Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center at a July plea hearing. A federal judge handed the 46-year-old consecutive life sentences on Tuesday afternoon for each of the seven counts of second-degree murder she said she committed.
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FILE - This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays. Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V., is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, for her guilty plea to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP)
CLARKSBURG A Harrison County woman who worked as an aide at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg was sentenced Tuesday to seven consecutive life sentences for the murder of veterans at the facility.
Reta Mays
PARKERSBURG A former aide convicted of killing patients at the Louis A. Johnson Clarksburg VA Medical Center got the appropriate sentence, a U.S. senator from West Virginia said Tuesday.
Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced Tuesday to seven consecutive life sentences for murder and 20 years for assault with attempt to murder an eighth victim at the facility. She injected them with unprescribed doses of insulin, causing hypoglycemia and their deaths.
“Justice has been served,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told reporters in a video press conference Tuesday from Washington, D.C.
The report by the Office of the Inspector General about the homicides, also released Tuesday, cites numerous deficiencies, the most egregious being a background check was never done on Mays before she was hired, Manchin said. For example, a check would have found Mays was involved in an allegation of excessive force while employed at the North Central Regional Jail, Manchin said.
JESS MANCINI For The Intelligencer
PARKERSBURG A former aide convicted of killing patients at the Louis A. Johnson Clarksburg VA Medical Center got the appropriate sentence, a U.S. senator from West Virginia said Tuesday.
Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Clarksburg to seven consecutive life sentences for murder and 20 years for assault with attempt to murder an eighth victim at the facility.
She injected them with unprescribed doses of insulin, causing hypoglycemia and their deaths.
“Justice has been served,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., told reporters in a video press conference Tuesday from Washington, D.C.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Jarod Douglas speaks at a press conference following the sentencing of Reta Mays who was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences for the murder of veterans at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg. (Photo Provided)
CLARKSBURG A Harrison County woman who worked as an aide at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg was sentenced Tuesday to seven consecutive life sentences for the murder of veterans at the facility.
Reta Mays, 46, was sentenced Tuesday by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Kleeh in the United States District Court for the Northern District of West Virginia to seven consecutive life sentences for the murder of veterans at the facility as well as another 20 years on a charge of assault with attempt to murder for an eighth victim.