May 11, 2021
A former 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, of Harrison County received the life sentences for the murders of seven veterans and another 20 years on a charge of assault with attempt to murder for an eighth victim. She pleaded guilty on July 14.
Mays was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Kleeh in Clarksburg.
“There are no words I can say that can offer the families any comfort,” she said while sobbing. “I can only say that I am sorry for the pain I have caused the families.
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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.
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.
W.Va. News
By JOHN RABY Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (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.