GRAFTON, W.Va. — A Preston County woman was arrested Tuesday in connection with the 2023 death of her mother.
Investigators from the Grafton Police Department said Kelly Moore, 61, of Arthurdale, was living with her mother, Ethel Moore, 82, in Grafton in May 2023 when she injected her with 20 units of her own insulin that resulted in her death.
First responders were dispatched to a report of a cardiac arrest at 40 Howard Street in Grafton just before noon on May 25, 2023.. When police found Ethel deceased, Kelly told police her blood sugar was 250 and she gave her some of her own insulin.
Investigators said Kelly seemed put out while being questioned and declared her mother recently had a full hip replacement, had been feeling bad for the last couple days, and her blood sugar was high.
Kelly told police she had a home in Arthurdale, and because she was the only one who was not married, she was designated to take care of their mother.
Kelly also told police about an exchange with her sister from Florida when Ethel told her she was not being taken care of. That resulted in a tense phone call to Kelly from Florida from her sister about the suspected lack of care her mother was receiving.
The autopsy confirmed that Ethel’s cause of death was insulin shock and the manner of death was homicide.
Investigators also said the sister in Florida believed her mother died from complications due to the hip surgery. Kelly never told her sister about the insulin injection.
Moore is charged with murder and is being held without bond in the Tygart Valley Regional Jail.
Story by Mike Nolting, WAJR