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Fired VA staffer facing 7 murder counts in insulin deaths

July 14th, 2020 by WCBC Radio

A former staffer at a veterans hospital in West Virginia is being charged with killing seven patients by giving them fatal doses of insulin, according to court documents unsealed Tuesday in a sweeping probe into a series of mysterious deaths.

Reta Mays, a former nursing assistant at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, is being charged with second degree murder in the deaths of seven people and assault with the intent to commit murder of an eighth person between 2017 and 2018.

She has a plea hearing scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. Mays’ attorney did not immediately return a voicemail seeking comment.

The unsealed court records, which name Mays publicly for the first time, come after multiple families initiated civil lawsuits against VA leadership alleging a widespread system of failures at the hospital, where victims were wrongfully injected with insulin and suddenly died.

 

 

One Response to “Fired VA staffer facing 7 murder counts in insulin deaths”

  1. July 15, 2020 at 10:13 am, Carolyn said:

    Why was a Nursing Assistant administrating Insulin…

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