Robert Todd Burmingham
Robert Todd Burmingham, 54, was held at Cummins Prison in Arkansas when he died on May 13, 2020, at UAMS in Little Rock, where he had been admitted for acute respiratory failure. Officials said he had tested positive for COVID-19, and his death certificate lists acute hypoxic respiratory failure and viral pneumonia secondary to coronavirus as the causes of death. A Daily Mail report said the facility had an outbreak that infected about 900 people and killed eight.
Cause of death, as reported: Died of illness. The Arkansas Department of Correction and the coroner's death certificate attribute his death to acute respiratory failure and viral pneumonia from COVID-19.
Reported by: Arkansas Department of Correction (the agency that held him); Senior Deputy Coroner Karen Cumming (medical examiner or coroner).
News reports (5)
- Arkansas inmate, accused 'blue-light rapist,' dies after testing positive for covid-19 - The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Arkansas' 'Blue Light Rapist' dies at age 54, tested positive for coronavirus
- Arkansas inmate, accused 'blue-light rapist,' dies after testing positive for covid-19 - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- Blue-light rapist dies in prison of covid-19 - Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
- 'Blue light rapist', 54, who posed as cop to trap victims dies of coronavirus in Arkansas jail