A shooting that near a Vermont borderline patrol cause dormant whitethorn beryllium connected to respective different murders spanning from Pennsylvania to California.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol cause David Maland, 44, was killed when the occupants of a car started firing astatine him erstwhile helium stopped them astir 20 miles from the US-Canada borderline connected January 20.
The suspected shooters person been identified arsenic Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Washington and Felix Bauckholt - a German nationalist who was changeable dormant astatine the scene.
Youngblut was injured during the shootout and taken to the hospital. Maland was besides taken to the hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dead. The motives down the incidental stay unclear.
But prosecutors judge the Vermont shooting was not an isolated crime - tying Youngblut to a treble homicide successful Pennsylvania and a fatal stabbing successful California.
In November 2024, Youngblut filed an exertion to wed Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old information scientist, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
On Friday, Snyder was arrested and charged with murdering a Vallejo, California landlord named Curtis Lind, 82, connected January 17. He appeared successful tribunal connected Tuesday.
A transgression ailment filed successful Solano County claims that Lind was stabbed and killed 'for the intent of preventing his grounds successful a transgression proceeding,' KTVU reported.
Swanton Sector Border Patrol cause David Maland, 44, was killed erstwhile the occupants of a car helium stopped astir 20 miles from the US-Canada borderline started firing astatine him
Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Washington has been accused of shooting and sidesplitting the borderline patrol cause and has been linked to 3 different deaths crossed the country
Lind had antecedently survived being attacked with a sword during an statement with his tenants successful 2022.
The landlord changeable dormant 1 of his attackers, 31-year-old Emma Borhanian. The different 2 suspected assailants, Suri Dao, 21, and Alexander Jeffrey Leatham, 27, were arrested.
The brace was charged attempted execution and aggravated mayhem for attacking Lind with a sword. They were besides charged with execution for Borhanian's death, according to KTVU.
Dao and Leatham are acceptable to look successful tribunal connected February 19 - and Lind was expected to attest against them.
In 2019, Borhanian and Leatham were arrested aft participating successful an outlandish protestation successful Westminster Woods, a camping retreat successful Occidental, California, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.
The Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office said they allegedly blocked themselves successful the wooded country to protestation artificial quality and a Berkeley nonprofit enactment that was hosting an lawsuit there.
In 2021, Borhanian, Leatham and the 2 others who protested with them - Gwen Danielson and Jack Lasota - sued the retreat and Sonoma County sheriff’s.
They claimed they were tortured and belittled for being transgender, but the lawsuit was dismissed due to the fact that the radical stopped showing up to court.
Curtis Lind, 82, was stabbed to decease astatine his Vallejo, California spot connected January 17
Maximilian Snyder, a 22-year-old information scientist, has been arrested and charged with Lind's death. He was besides acceptable to wed Youngblut
Youngblut whitethorn besides beryllium associated with the suspected killers of Richard Zajko, 71, and his woman Rita, 69, who were recovered dormant successful their Delaware County, Pennsylvania location successful January 2023.
In tribunal connected Monday, prosecutors revealed that a idiosyncratic who whitethorn beryllium progressive successful the Zajkos' murders allegedly bought the guns Youngblut and Bauckholt utilized successful the Vermont borderline patrol shooting.
Additionally, Youngblut was successful accordant contacted with different unnamed 'person of interest' who was detained successful Pennsylvania successful transportation to the treble homicide, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Youngblut has been charged with one number of utilizing a deadly limb portion assaulting a United States Border Patrol agent, and 1 number of utilizing and discharging a firearm during and successful narration to that assault, according to the US Attorney's Office.
Seattle instrumentality enforcement revealed that Youngblut's parents told constabulary she was missing days earlier she allegedly killed Maland, NBC5 reported.
Her parents said they had not heard from her successful days and were increasing concerned. Youngblut reportedly moved retired to spell unrecorded with a person and changed her telephone number.
They disclosed that their girl had go estranged, pulling distant from friends and lying astir who she was with and her whereabouts.
But since Youngblut is an adult, constabulary determined determination was nary crushed to formally study her missing.
Richard Zajko (right), 71, and his woman Rita (left), 69 were recovered dormant successful their Pennsylvania location successful 2023
When Youngblut and Bauckholt were stopped successful a Prius by borderline agents, Bauckholt reportedly had an expired visa.
The brace had been connected police's radars aft a Vermont edifice worker noticed them checking-in wearing each achromatic clothing. Youngblut allegedly had an exposed gun.
They told constabulary they were successful Vermont looking for spot to bargain and checked retired connected January 19, according to prosecutors.
Before the shooting, they were past seen astatine a Walmart. Bauckholt bought aluminum foil and went to the car to wrapper items successful it.
After the attack, officers reportedly recovered 2 pistols, 2 phones wrapped successful tin foil, a ballistic helmet, nighttime imaginativeness goggles, a tactical belt, 2 full-face respirators, bullets, hand-held radios, a twelve physics devices and question documents, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
They besides allegedly spotted Youngblut's journal, which contained 'cypher text' and statements referring to cause usage - including 'coming up connected acid' and 'this LSD travel seems beauteous mellow.'