Did the victim or his partner have relatives nearby? When my father was in assisted living, I visited him every day. I would like to think that if he were in similar danger, I would have been in a position to protect him.

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Buttrick’s attorney Michael J. Belsky said on Friday that he hopes the lawsuit spurs Cogir employees to come forward and share what they know about Fuller’s death, the man accused of killing him, and decisions made by Cogir’s management in the aftermath of the killing.”


“There is substantial evidence as to what happened,” Belsky said. “What we don’t understand ... and what we don’t know is how it was able to institutionally happen.”

He said Cogir “turned a blind eye” to complaints made by Cogir employees against James.

“The shooting happened based on a breakdown in culture and management on the part of Cogir,” Belsky said.”

“According to the lawsuit, Buttrick spoke to investigators only hours after she woke up to the grisly crime scene on the morning of Valentine’s Day in an apartment she shared with Fuller. Fuller, who paid $20,000 per month to live at Cogir, was a longtime lawyer in Maine and a philanthropist.

Buttrick alleged in her complaint that she experienced “severe psychological torment” because of how management at Cogir handled the killing.

She told investigators that she suspected James had killed Fuller “based on his suspicious behavior and the unusual return visit the night before,” according to the suit. “She had never been comfortable with him,” the filing said. “She had noticed at times that something did not seem right.”


https://www.thebanner.com/community/criminal-justice/linda-buttrick-robert-fuller-jr-lawsuit-HBSECS4IERG4HOSFBV7COIUTJI/

Just read this horrific update. Prior to the murder, a nurse documented that Marquise James, age 22, had been allowed to work while under the influence, behaved erratically, mishandled medications. This was all reported to management by the nurse and she was fired!! No small coincidence that the killer’s mother, Shenise James-Dubose, was the health and wellness director at the facility.

Unbelievable and I’m glad Robert Fuller’s partner, Linda Buttrick has filed a lawsuit against the facility.

I expect (hope) that Jane Doe, the fired nurse, will also be filing a lawsuit.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/2026/03/20/nurse-lawsuit-murder/

This is really nightmare fuel. It also shows that just because you choose an expensive AL or SNF you can’t count on safety. You have to watch like an absolute hawk.

Anonymous wrote:Update on this case and it's horrific. Mother of accused was senior director who fired a nurse who made complaints about her son and also suppressed complaints made by others. Then after the murder and after the victim's partner identified the alleged perpetrator, the facility continued to send him into the apartment to provide medication for the partner knowingly putting her in danger. She filed a lawsuit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/partner-of-man-killed-by-employee-at-potomac-senior-living-facility-plans-to-sue/ar-AA1Z0GSX?ocid=BingNewsSerp

This is terrifying. It doesn’t sound like the decedent’s surviving partner had anyone who could extricate her quickly from this dangerous situation. She was really at the mercy of a small time (though lethal) crime family. It will take time for her lawsuit to move through the courts, but she needs money immediately to relocate to another care facility, and after this harrowing ordeal, she shouldn’t have to settle for any facility that can’t give her VIP treatment.

Oh my god

Update on this case and it's horrific. Mother of accused was senior director who fired a nurse who made complaints about her son and also suppressed complaints made by others. Then after the murder and after the victim's partner identified the alleged perpetrator, the facility continued to send him into the apartment to provide medication for the partner knowingly putting her in danger. She filed a lawsuit.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/partner-of-man-killed-by-employee-at-potomac-senior-living-facility-plans-to-sue/ar-AA1Z0GSX?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy looks like a lowlife. I bet it had nothing to do with anything. He just got mad at the victim over something stupid and decided to kill him.

Considering he shot at a trooper during a seemingly minor traffic stop, you might be right.

It isn't a minor traffic stop when you have a murder weapon on you.

It was still a minor traffic stop. Until it wasn't.

Anonymous wrote:This guy looks like a lowlife. I bet it had nothing to do with anything. He just got mad at the victim over something stupid and decided to kill him.

Sad you’re probably right. If I had access to a whole pharmacy of potential poisons no way I’d manually kill someone. You’d have to be completely stupid.

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Anonymous wrote:One theory: One of the step kids hired him to kill the victim. They were careful to leave zero trace, and they will say he’s making up a lie about them hiring him in order to get a reduced sentence.

Prosecutor here. That's possible, but it is really really hard to hire a hitman without leaving some evidence. There would very likely be unexplained communications between the stepkid and the shooter. If nothing else, there would be evidence that the shooter recently came into unexplained money.

I also think the fact that the shooter apparently hung onto the gun is incongruent with this theory. Any hitman worth his salt would have disposed of it.

Agreed. I feel that someone first set up this man. Isn't it all too convenient that he is wearing the same coat, has wigs at home and did not get rid of all that?

Someone else may have shot the man but this guy is the patsy? It is however, not a perfect crime. The forensic accountants can trace the money. There is an inside man, an outside man, and this dumb fuzt who may or may not have pulled the trigger. He starts to fire at the policeman on a traffic stop makes me feel that he was extremely nervous and believed that he will be caught.

Does not have the brain cells to plan a crime. Can only shoot when cornered.

Same coat? Wigs at home? Please.

You act like the accused is some type of rational actor. He looks high.

Anonymous wrote:What was the motive? The staff at my parents' assisted living facility are hit or miss -- some are monsters. But I never would have thought of something like this. You never know what people are capable of.

They’ll have to go over his communications and see who he was in contact with but there is more to this story he could’ve stolen a watch from an old man and blamed anybody. He didn’t need to kill him, I think something else is at play.

Anonymous wrote:It was an employee:
https://wtop.com/maryland/2026/02/employee-at-senior-living-facility-charged-in-death-of-87-year-old-man-attempted-murder-of-maryland-state-police-trooper/

Uh the next page of that article was this article: https://wtop.com/montgomery-county/2026/02/silver-spring-man-gets-50-years-for-sextorting-more-than-100-children/

A man in this area meeting children on Roblox!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What was the motive?

I bet the perp was stealing the narcotic medication from the patient. This unfortunately happened to my dad after he fell and broke his hip at his nursing home which as A+ rated.

How does killing this victim facilitate theft of the medication? Why not just...not give the medication to the guy? I don't doubt that nursing home personnel sometimes steals medications. I just don't see how killing him furthers that goal.

This. The perp wanted THIS particular individual dead. Not the roommate or partner, nor the other residents. There was a reason this individual was targeted. The perp could have acquired meds without killing him.

I'm sure we'll get a better idea of the motive in the coming days or weeks.

But if you read articles, the same door was found propped since, alarm disabled. So his colleague who reported that may have prevented another killing days after the first.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:One theory: One of the step kids hired him to kill the victim. They were careful to leave zero trace, and they will say he’s making up a lie about them hiring him in order to get a reduced sentence.

Prosecutor here. That's possible, but it is really really hard to hire a hitman without leaving some evidence. There would very likely be unexplained communications between the stepkid and the shooter. If nothing else, there would be evidence that the shooter recently came into unexplained money.

I also think the fact that the shooter apparently hung onto the gun is incongruent with this theory. Any hitman worth his salt would have disposed of it.

Yeah but as a prosecutor I'm sure you've seen more than a few less than intelligent criminals. I'm not saying this was definitely a murder for hire (we both agree it's possible), but there are plenty of cases where someone thinks they're hiring a professional only to find out later that it was an amateur who slipped up. You're right, there will be evidence if this is in fact what happened.

Anything is possible, but I'm skeptical that someone who is sophisticated enough to "leave zero trace" and set up a defense before hiring a hitman would hire someone dumb enough to hang on to the murder weapon and try to kill a cop while being recorded. It is certainly an avenue worth investigating, but I'd be surprised if any of that is true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This guy looks like a lowlife. I bet it had nothing to do with anything. He just got mad at the victim over something stupid and decided to kill him.

Considering he shot at a trooper during a seemingly minor traffic stop, you might be right.

It isn't a minor traffic stop when you have a murder weapon on you.