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Ex-nursing assistance at the VA hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday. During her trial, She confessed to using insulin to murder seven elderly patients at a VA hospital. During sentencing, Judge Thomas Kleeh called Reta Mays (46) a monster of the “worst kind. You are the monster no one sees coming,” He delivered a life sentence for each murder victim, plus 20 years for an eighth victim she tried to kill.
Mays is not eligible for probation for the seven life sentences and is ordered to pay restitution to the victim’s families. The victims are aged from 81 to 96 and served in the Navy, Army, and Air Force during WWII, the Vietnam war, and the Korean war. Mays pleaded guilty last year to murdering the seven veterans and to assault an eighth with intended murder. Mays killed all seven veterans and assaulted the eight veteran with intent to kill at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center while she was working as nurse assistance from July 2017 to June 2
WASHINGTON, May 12 An American nurse was sentenced to life imprisonment on Tuesday over the murder of seven veterans to whom she had given lethal doses of insulin while they were under her care in a hospital. “There is no explanation and certainly no justification,” Judge Thomas Kleeh.
CHARLESTON â While some families finally had their day in court with the sentencing of Reta Mays on Tuesday, the attorney representing most of those families in civil lawsuits said the case is far from over.
Tony OâDell, a Charleston attorney, said Monday afternoon that the release of a highly anticipated report from the Department of Veterans Affairsâ Office of Inspector General, which details the systematic failures and oversight deficiencies that led to these veteran deaths, could ultimately reveal more victims who died at the hands of Mays. The 100-page document was released Tuesday.
There were other veterans beyond the seven patients Mays pleaded guilty to killing who died on the same floor, or died of similar unnatural circumstances, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg during the same time period, OâDell said.