Robert Edwin Edge Sr., 82, was a U.S. Navy veteran and longtime Lumberport resident who died while receiving care at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg on July 20, 2017. He had been battling dementia and was hospitalized on Ward 3A; prosecutors say nursing assistant Reta Mays deliberately introduced exogenous insulin into his body, causing hypoglycemia that led to his death. Edge had Type 2 diabetes, but federal prosecutors determined he had not been prescribed insulin during that admission. His death was the earliest counted in a federal case that later linked a series of unexplained hypoglycemic episodes and several subsequent veteran deaths on the same ward to unauthorized insulin administration.

Edge worked 36 years for Westinghouse and was remembered by family as mechanically skilled, devoted to a large family, and married to Joann Crutch Edge for 64 years before her death. At sentencing the family sought to restore the person behind the criminal charge while prosecutors described the insulin injections as deliberate acts that could cause seizures, loss of consciousness and death.

Did anyone who knew Robert Edge or his time at the VA hospital notice anything out of the ordinary during his admission?