A real threat to public safety | Authorities worry about illegal 3D-printed guns
3D printers can make toys, tools, even artificial limbs for those in need. But there are now concerns about more nefarious items like illegal 3D-printed guns. Author: Laura Geller, Becca Knier (WUSA 9) Published: 10:31 AM EDT May 13, 2021 Updated: 10:31 AM EDT May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON Inside a small apartment last year in West Virginia, prosecutors said Timothy John Watson operated an online retailer named Portable Wall Hanger. But they say it was just a front, and Watson was actually selling machine gun conversion devices, which allow rifles to fire multiple
shots with just one press of the trigger.
Can Veterans Affairs officials spot another serial killer hiding in their midst? 3 hours ago This week, a former nursing assistant from the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., (shown here in July 2020) was sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven patients with insulin injections in 2017 and 2018. (Gene J. Puskar/AP) Before former Veterans Affairs nursing assistant Reta Mays to life in prison for murdering patients at a West Virginia VA hospital, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Kleeh blasted her as a “monster,” a calculated killer who used available opportunities to commit “evil” against elderly, infirm veterans.
Woman Who Murdered 7 Veterans In VA Hospital Gets Multiple Life Sentences
A former nursing assistant has been given multiple life sentences for the murder of seven elderly veterans after she admitted last year to intentionally using fatal injections of insulin to kill the men at a medical center for veterans in West Virginia.
Reta Mays, 46, received seven consecutive life sentences plus 20 years on Tuesday after she pleaded guilty in federal court in July to seven counts of second-degree murder and one count of assault with intent to commit murder.
U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh said that evidence showed she had conducted internet searches on female serial killers and watched the Netflix series Nurses Who Kill.
Former VA health worker sentenced to life in prison for murdering seven patients via insulin poisoning 2 days ago Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.Va., was sentenced to prison Tuesday for intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin in 2017 and 2018. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP) A former Veterans Affairs nursing assistant on Tuesday was sentenced to life in prison for murdering multiple patients through insulin overdoses in an act she described as helping them die “gently,” even though none of the victims were facing life-threatening conditions.
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.
Reta Mays West Virginia Regional Jail & Correctional Facility Authority
Hospital officials reported the deaths to the Department of Veterans Affairs 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 inspector general s office detailing deficiencies at the hospital.
In it, she said she administered insulin to patients she believed were suffering so that they could pass gently. She said she also had great stress and chaos in her personal and professional life, and that her actions gave her a sense of control.