{"id":90243,"date":"2019-08-26T12:15:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-26T16:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=90243"},"modified":"2019-08-26T11:47:52","modified_gmt":"2019-08-26T15:47:52","slug":"murder-at-wv-va-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=90243","title":{"rendered":"Murder at WV VA Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82791\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-168x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"168\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-168x300.jpg 168w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-768x1372.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets-186x333.jpg 186w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Boots-and-helmets.jpg 1540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 168px) 100vw, 168px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sickening:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/news\/wvnews\/claim-death-of-vietnam-vet-at-louis-a-johnson-va\/article_58cc08fe-edc5-5e44-8877-1470351a071e.html\">https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/news\/wvnews\/claim-death-of-vietnam-vet-at-louis-a-johnson-va\/article_58cc08fe-edc5-5e44-8877-1470351a071e.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The name of the suspect has not been released. SGT McDermott is one of at least 9 people at that VA hospital who died under suspicious circumstances. He was injected with insulin that he did not need, and hie records show that his condition was improving.<\/p>\n<p>Per the article: If the armed forces medical examiner is correct, the military veteran \u201cwas murdered while he was in the care and custody of the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center despite the VAMC being on notice of the previous wrongful injections,\u201d O\u2019Dell wrote in the claim.<\/p>\n<p>The claim also asserts that VA investigators \u201chave a person of interest in the deaths of the multiple VAMC patients,\u201d but that person\u2019s name hasn\u2019t been shared with O\u2019Dell and his client.<\/p>\n<p>Retired Army Sgt. Felix Kirk McDermott, 82, of Ellenboro, died April 9, 2018, at the Medical Center.<\/p>\n<p>The VA Office of the Inspector General ordered McDermott\u2019s remains exhumed Oct. 23, 2018, and they were sent to Dover Air Force Base for an autopsy \u201cbecause of the suspicious manner of Mr. McDermott\u2019s death,\u201d O\u2019Dell wrote in the claim filed on behalf of Melanie Proctor, McDermott\u2019s daughter, who lives in Ellenboro and is administrator of her father\u2019s estate.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring its investigation, VA investigators advised Melanie Proctor &#8230; that there was evidence that nine or ten other patients of the Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center had been wrongfully injected with insulin in their abdomen, thereby causing their deaths,\u201d O\u2019Dell wrote. \u201cMs. Proctor was further advised that her father was one of the last known victims.\u201d &#8211; article<\/p>\n<p>This does not happen only at federal facilities. It also has happened at public and private health care centers, nursing homes and hospitals. Not too long ago, there was a doctor in England who had elderly women as some of his patients and who quietly murdered them when he served them tea.<\/p>\n<p>If there is someone who is a suspect, we won&#8217;t know about it until the other autopsies have been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sickening:\u00a0 https:\/\/www.wvnews.com\/news\/wvnews\/claim-death-of-vietnam-vet-at-louis-a-johnson-va\/article_58cc08fe-edc5-5e44-8877-1470351a071e.html The name of the suspect has not been released. 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