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Family members of victims had the opportunity Tuesday in court to confront a former nursing assistant who murdered seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital. The deaths occured in 2017 and 2018.
Before 46-year-old Reta Mays was sentenced to seven life sentences and 20 years by U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh, who himself described her as the monster that no one sees coming, the families of the victims read their impact statements aloud to Mays directly in the in Clarksburg, West Virginia, courtroom.
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(CLARKSBURG, W.Va.) U.S. Army veteran Felix McDermott was affectionally known by his grandchildren as “Snappy Pappy.” He would have seen his family grow even larger had he not been murdered at the VA in Clarksburg, West Virginia.
Reta Mays has never explained why she killed the seven veterans and assaulted an eighth with the intent to kill. She offered no hint of motive when she tearfully addressed the court Tuesday before the judge imposed seven consecutive life sentences.
“There are no words I can say that would offer the families any comfort,” Mays said. “I can only say I m sorry for the pain I caused the families and my family. I don t ask for forgiveness because I don t think I could forgive anyone who did what I did.”
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Reta Mays victims were killed in 2017 and 2018.
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The family of Felix McDermott, 82, who died after someone injected him with insulin even though he’s not a diabetic, says in a wrongful death lawsuit that others died under suspicious circumstances. Gene J. Puskar/AP
U.S. Army veteran Felix McDermott was affectionally known by his grandchildren as “Snappy Pappy.” He would have seen his family grow even larger had he not been murdered at the VA in Clarksburg, West Virginia.