Former nursing assistant pleads guilty to murders

A former nursing assistant at a medical center for veterans in West Virginia has pleaded guilty to seven counts of seconddegree murder and one count of assault with the intent to commit murder.

Reta Mays, 46, appeared in federal court Tuesday and admitted to killing the patients at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg by injecting them with insulin. She also admitted injecting an eighth patient in order to kill him.

Prosecutors requested that Mays, who is from Harrison County, where Clarksburg is located, serve seven consecutive life sentences and an additional 20-year prison term.