Senior living center employee executed 87-year-old millionaire philanthropist after giving him medication and tampering with the facility’s censors: Police

A worker at a Maryland senior living center is accused of fatally shooting an 87-year-old millionaire resident and then continuing to work at the facility for several days.

Maurquise Emillo James, 22, has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of Robert Fuller Jr., the Montgomery County Department of Police announced. As of Wednesday, the defendant was being held at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit awaiting a bond hearing.

James was a medicine technician at the Cogir Potomac senior living facility in Potomac, where Fuller was staying, Montgomery County Police Captain Sean Gagan said during a Wednesday press conference streamed by Washington, D.C., Fox affiliate WTTG. According to police, James told officers that on the night of Feb. 13, he “administered medicine to the victim and his roommate, as per usual.”…

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