Nurse admits to killing 2 patients with insulin

A registered nurse was arrested after she admitted to giving three patients unnecessary medication in order to kill them, investigators said.

The first incident happened in August 2022, when staff at Quality Life Services found a 73-year-old patient seizing in his bed about two hours after Pressdee clocked out for the day.

He had no history of seizures or diabetes, and tests later determined he had a “profoundly low” blood sugar count, the complaint shows.

He was taken to a hospital, where doctors were able to stabilize his blood sugar.

The other two incidents happened back-to-back on Nov. 20, 2022, when Quality Life Services staff members found two men suffering from low blood sugar one after the other within three hours of Pressdee’s shift.

They were both taken to the hospital, where doctors determined they had likely been administered insulin.

One of the patients, a 55-year-old non-verbal man who had several medical conditions, died on Dec. 4, 2022.

The other, an 83-year-old long-term resident of Quality Life Services who had been in hospice care, died on Dec. 25, 2022.

On Wednesday, investigators interviewed Pressdee at her home, where she admitted to having injected the 55-year-old and the 83-year-old with insulin, according to the complaint.

“She stated that she felt bad for their quality of life and she had hoped that they would just slip into a coma and pass away,” authorities said.

In a later interview with investigators and her mother, Pressdee also admitted to having given unneeded insulin to the 73-year-old patient, saying that he was in COVID isolation and having a hard time in August 2022, the complaint shows.

She said he asked her to kill him, and so she injected him with long-acting insulin and did nothing when he began to show symptoms of the drug’s effects.

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