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CHARLESTON â Details in a report released recently by the federal government likely have opened the door for more wrongful-death lawsuits to be filed against the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg.
There were 21 patients who died at the Clarksburg VA hospital during the time of Reta Maysâ employment and whose health records indicate similar causes of suspicious deaths, according to the 100-page Department of Veterans Affairsâ Office of Inspector General report.
Tony OâDell, a Charleston attorney representing most of Maysâ victimsâ families, said the report does not make clear if these 21 people are separate from the 10 victims previously identified by investigators. OâDell said the report lays out the evidence needed to connect Mays to âthree or four moreâ patient deaths, and a civil lawsuit can be filed on behalf of their families.
CHARLESTON â While some families finally had their day in court with the sentencing of Reta Mays on Tuesday, the attorney representing most of those families in civil lawsuits said the case is far from over.
Tony OâDell, a Charleston attorney, said Monday afternoon that the release of a highly anticipated report from the Department of Veterans Affairsâ Office of Inspector General, which details the systematic failures and oversight deficiencies that led to these veteran deaths, could ultimately reveal more victims who died at the hands of Mays. The 100-page document was released Tuesday.
There were other veterans beyond the seven patients Mays pleaded guilty to killing who died on the same floor, or died of similar unnatural circumstances, at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg during the same time period, OâDell said.
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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.