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CLARKSBURG There is still the possibility of more lawsuits against the Louis A. Johnson Veteran s Affairs Medical Center (VAMC) for deaths allegedly caused by serial killer Reta Mays.
The deadline for lawsuits to be filed against VAMC is August, which is the two-year anniversary of the investigation into mysterial deaths at the VAMC going public, according to the Associated Press.
Mays was a nursing assistant at the VAMC and admitted she killed veterans by giving them fatal shots of insulin.
Mays was recently moved to a low-security women s prison in Alabama. She was sentenced to seven consecutive life sentences plus 20 years for the deaths of seven veterans that she admitted to injecting with unnecessary insulin. Mays was moved to FCI Aliceville.
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Reta Mays, a former US nursing assistant pleaded guilty to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin.
A former US 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 US judge who called her the monster that no one sees coming.” Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation for why she killed the men. But US 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.
UPDATED: May 12, 2021 12:18 IST
Reta Mays has a history of mental health issues, and offered no explanation Tuesday for why she killed the men. (AP)
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.
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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.
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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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.
She originally pleaded guilty on July 14, 2020.