Raymond Golden was an 88-year-old White military veteran who died while a patient at the Louis A. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Clarksburg, West Virginia, in early June 2018. Golden had served in the Army from 1951 to 1953 and in the Air Force from 1955 to 1973, including assignments in Vietnam, Panama and the Philippines. Prosecutors say his blood-glucose level fell to an extraordinarily low 7 mg/dL after insulin was administered, and that the resulting severe hypoglycemia matched a pattern investigators tied to injections given to multiple patients on Ward 3A.

Investigators determined nursing assistant Reta Mays, who worked overnight on the ward and was not authorized to give medication, had taken insulin from the hospital medication area and injected patients without medical reason. Scientific and circumstantial evidence, medical-chart timing, staff access records and other forensic work led authorities to conclude insulin caused the fatal hypoglycemic episodes; no other person was charged in Golden’s death. Mays later pleaded guilty to multiple counts related to these deaths and admitted intentionally administering insulin to cause them.