A Maryland man who killed three people, including his brother and sister-in-law, reportedly murdered his sibling because he was a pharmacist inoculating people with the coronavirus vaccine, something the murderer had told their mother, according to the Baltimore Sun.
Jeffrey Burnham killed 83-year-old Rebecca Reynolds, a friend of his mother’s since childhood, in Cumberland, Maryland to steal her car so he could drive to Ellicott City, about 120 miles away, to stop his brother, Brian Robinette, from administering the vaccine. “Brian knows something,” Burnham told his mother, according to the charging documents.
The mother, Evelyn Burnham, had called Cumberland police twice in the previous week, relating to Burnham’s deteriorating mental health. Aside from his ramblings about the vaccine, Jeffrey Burnham also claimed the FBI was after him, and they wanted to get his mother, too, he told her.
Burnham stabbed his mother’s friend to get her car to get to Ellicott City, where he shot his brother and his wife in the bedroom of their suburban home. He then fled to West Virginia, where he flagged down a firefighter passing by his motel. Burnham told the firefighter that he “had been forced to kill three people.”