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 fr
For The Inter-Mountain
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.
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.