Beloved millionaire Maine philanthropist shot dead in ritzy DC suburb assisted living home, no arrests made

A millionaire philanthropist from Maine was changeable dormant successful an assisted surviving installation successful a ritzy Washington, D.C. suburb, according to police.

The Montgomery County Department of Police successful Maryland said it responded to an early-morning Feb. 14 exigency telephone astatine the Cogir Potomac Senior Living, wherever archetypal responders recovered Robert Fuller Jr., 87, with terrible caput trauma.

"After processing the scene, Homicide detectives confirmed that Fuller had been shot," the section said successful a release. "His decease is being investigated arsenic a homicide and helium was taken to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner for autopsy to find origin and mode of death."

Robert Fuller Jr. (L) gives remarks astatine the 2017 opening of the Veterans Academic Center successful Augusta, Maine, a task to which helium donated.   (Joe Phelan/Centralmaine.com)

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An apprehension has not been made successful the case, and constabulary person nary suspects.

Fuller was a retired Navy reserve serviceman and high-powered lawyer from Augusta, Maine, wherever helium was known to beryllium a large philanthropist, according to reports.

According to the Kennebec Valley Chamber of Commerce, Fuller donated much than $1.6 cardinal to modernize the diversion analyzable of Cony High School successful Augusta arsenic the task stalled owed to fiscal challenges faced by the metropolis during COVID-19.

The entranceway to Cogir Senior Living successful Potomac, Maryland, successful November 2025.  (Google Maps)

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"I judge that erstwhile a precocious schoolhouse has a continuing past of diversion success, it fosters a consciousness of assemblage pride. It rubs off. When this pridefulness is evident it becomes easier to pull radical who’ll adhd worth – doctors, teachers, artists, entrepreneurs – and who’ll take to enactment around," Fuller said erstwhile the charitable publication was announced. "Not lone due to the fact that Augusta has the superior facilities and services they request but it’s besides wherever a visitant tin observe that its citizens are upbeat and bask surviving wherever they are. You can’t person palmy teams these days without the infrastructure you request to enactment them. So I don’t deliberation of my enactment arsenic simply a acquisition but alternatively arsenic an concern successful Augusta’s future."

The Maine State Capitol is photographed successful Augusta, Maine. (eyecrave productions via Getty Images)

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Subsequently, the diversion tract was named for Fuller.

According to the aforesaid announcement, Fuller was besides a charitable contributor to the MaineGeneral Medical Center, Kennebec Historical Society, Cony High School, Kennebec Valley YMCA, Old Fort Western, which is simply a historical landmark successful Augusta, arsenic good arsenic a section library.