A Maryland man allegedly shot and killed his pharmacist brother and his sister-in-law last week because he was “killing people” by administering COVID-19 vaccine shots.
Police say Jeffrey Burnham, 46, killed Brian Robinette, 58, and Kelly Sue Robinette, 57, last week. According to charging documents Burnham told his mother he had to confront Brian because he was poisoning people by administering the COVID-19 vaccine, telling his mother, “Brian knows something,” The Baltimore Sun reports.
Burnham also told an unnamed person that his brother was “killing people with the COVID shot.”
Burnham’s mother had called police twice last week about her son’s mental stability. In one call she told police that her son kept a security system in his bedroom at their home, after claiming that the FBI was spying on them. She called police on Sept. 30 out of concern for her childhood friend Rebecca Reynolds, 83, since Burnham kept referring to “Becky’s car.”
Reynolds was found dead inside her home with a deep laceration across her throat and a pillow over her face, the charging documents said. Burnham has been charged with stabbing in her death. Police say he stole her car and fled to Ellicott City, where he killed his brother and sister-in-law a day later, Sept. 30.
Burnham fled in his brother’s car but was arrested in West Virginia, where he allegedly told a firefighter he had been “forced to kill three people.”
He faces first and second-degree murder charges in the deaths of his brother and sister-in-law. He is being held without bond at Allegany County Detention Center.
