Former nursing aide who admitted to killing 7 veterans with fatal doses of insulin sentenced to life in prison
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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 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. Mays, 46, pleaded guilty last year in federal court to seven counts of second-degree murder for intentionally injecting the men with unprescribed insulin at the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in Clarksburg.Authorities made two gruesome discoveries Tuesday after a Missouri woman walked into a police station and told officers that she fatally shot one of her children and drowned the other, officials said. Jefferson County Sheriff Dave Marshak said at a news conference that authorities believe both children were killed Tuesday morning.
Strong storms with damaging winds and baseball-sized hail pummeled Texas on Tuesday, leaving more than one million businesses and homes without power as much of the U.S. recovered from severe weather, including tornadoes, that killed at least 24 people in seven states during the Memorial Day holiday weekend.