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A West Virginia nursing assistant and Army veteran who admitted to killing seven elderly men at a Veteran’s Administration hospital over a year-long period ending in 2018 will be jailed for the rest of her life, a court ruled on Tuesday.
Reta Mays, an Army National Guard vet who served in a non-combat position in Iraq and Afghanistan, pleaded guilty in 2020 to the seven killings at Clarksburg’s Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center at a July plea hearing. A federal judge handed the 46-year-old consecutive life sentences on Tuesday afternoon for each of the seven counts of second-degree murder she said she committed.
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FILE - This photo released July 14, 2020, by the West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority shows Reta Mays. Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, W.V., is scheduled to be sentenced Tuesday, May 11, 2021, for her guilty plea to intentionally killing seven patients with fatal doses of insulin. (West Virginia Regional Jail and Correctional Facility Authority via AP)
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.
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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. (Photo Provided)
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.
First Published: 12:03 PM PDT, May 12, 2021
Reta Mays sobbed as she was sentenced to life in prison. She murdered seven elderly veterans with insulin injections.
A former nursing assistant who confessed to murdering seven elderly patients at a Veterans Affairs hospital by injecting them with insulin will spend the rest of her life behind bars.
Reta Mays, 46, wept as U.S. District Judge Thomas Kleeh called her the worst kind of monster. You are the monster no one sees coming, he said. He sentenced her to life in prison for each patient she murdered, plus 20 years for an eighth victim she attempted to kill.
US nurse sentenced to life in prison for murdering 7 veterans with unprescribed insulin Associated Press
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.