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 consecuti
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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.
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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.
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A former nursing assistant who killed seven elderly veterans with fatal injections of insulin at a West Virginia hospital was sentenced to life in prison on Tuesday by a federal judge who called her the monster that no one sees coming.
Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation Tuesday for why she killed the men. But U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh told her you knew what you were doing before sentencing her to seven consecutive life terms, a punishment that means she ll likely die in prison.
Mays cried and apologized in addressing the court briefly before learning her sentence.
“I know that there’s no words that I can say that would alter the families’ pain and comfort,” she said. “I don’t ask for forgiveness because I don’t think I could forgive anyone for doing what I did.”
Hospital officials reported the deaths to the VA inspector general and fired Mays after evidence pointed to her.
An interview with Mays after her guilty plea was included in a lengthy report released after Tuesday s sentencing by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ Office of Inspector General detailing deficiencies at the hospital.