A member of the group of Ziziens to be charged with murder in the death of the border agent of Vermont
Burlington, VT. – A member of the group of cult Ziziens accused of having killed an agent of the American border patrol should make his first appearance in court since the prosecutors said that they would ask for the death penalty against her.
Teresa Youngblut, 21, from Seattle, is part of a group of radical computer science focused on veganism, gender identity and artificial intelligence that have been linked to six murders in three states. She is accused of shooting the shooting agent David Maland in Vermont on January 20, on the same day, President Donald Trump was inaugurated and signed an executive decree raising the moratorium on federal executions.
Youngblut was first accused of using a fatal weapon against the police and unloading a firearm during an assault with a deadly weapon, crimes which were not punishable by the death penalty. But the Trump administration pointed out very early that more serious charges occurred within the framework of its push for more federal executions, and a new act of accusation published last month accused him of a federal agent for the application of the law, of assault on other agents with a deadly weapon and infractions of related firearms.
Youngblut should be arrested for new charges on Friday afternoon.
At the time of the shooting, the authorities had watched Youngblut and his companion, Felix Bauckholt, for several days after an employee of the Hotel in Vermont said they were wearing firearms and wearing black tactical equipment. She is accused of opening fire on border agents who pulled the car on the interstate 91. An agent retaliated, killing Bauckholt and injuring Youngblut.
The couple were among the followers of Jack Lasota, a transgender woman also known as Ziz whose online writing attracted young very intelligent computer scientists who shared anarchist beliefs. The members of the group were linked to the death of one of theirs during an attack on a Californian owner in 2022, the owner’s subsequent murder this year, and the death of one of the parents of the members in Pennsylvania.
Lasota and two others face weapons and drug charges in Maryland, where they were arrested in February, while Lasota faces additional federal charges to be an armed fugitive. Another member of the group who is accused of having killed the owner in California had asked for a marriage license with Youngblut. Michelle Zajko, whose parents were killed in Pennsylvania, was arrested with Lasota in Maryland and was accused of having provided weapons in Youngblut in Vermont.
Vermont abolished his state death penalty in 1972. The last person sentenced to death in the state for federal accusations was Donald Fell, who was sentenced in 2005 to have kidnapped and killed a supermarket worker five years earlier. But the conviction and the sentence were then expelled due to a juror fault, and in 2018, he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life prison.
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