Vaccine conspiracy theories lead to murder

A Maryland man was angry with his pharmacist brother for administering coronavirus vaccines before he killed his brother, sister-in-law and a family friend in a triple homicide that led to a police manhunt, investigators allege in court documents.

Jeffrey Burnham, 46, of Cumberland had previously told his mother that he wanted to confront his older brother, Brian Robinette, about what he claimed was the government poisoning people with the shots, according to court documents filed in Howard County District Court.

“Brian knows something!” he repeatedly said to her, according to the documents first reported by Baltimore-area news outlets.

Burnham is accused of fatally shooting his 58-year-old brother in the front foyer of his Ellicott City home on Sept. 30 and killing his brother’s wife, Kelly Robinette, 57, in an upstairs bedroom, police said.