California: A Wisconsin teenager has been charged in the killing of his mother and stepfather in what federal authorities allege was as an attempt to obtain the money and autonomy he believed was necessary for a plot to kill US President Donald Trump and overthrow the government.
Nikita Casap, 17, was arrested last month in the deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, 35, and stepfather, Donald Mayer, 51, according to the Waukesha County Sheriff’s Department.
Sheriff’s deputies found the bodies at the family’s home in Waukesha, about 27 kilometres south-west of Milwaukee, after receiving a call on February 28 requesting a welfare check, the department said.
Nikita Casap believed the assassination of Donald Trump would “foment a political revolution in the United States”, federal investigators allege.Credit: AP
According to federal documents unsealed on Friday, the fatal shootings were part of a plan by Casap, who identified with a right-wing terrorist network known as the Order of Nine Angels, to assassinate Trump in what he believed would “foment a political revolution in the United States”, federal investigators allege.
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Casap also paid, at least in part, for a drone and explosives that he planned to use in an attack, according to the documents, which were filed in the US District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin.
Casap’s lawyers could not be immediately reached for comment.
A self-described “manifesto”, found on Casap’s phone and detailed in the federal documents, allegedly contained images and praise of Adolf Hitler, as well as instructions to others to make bombs.
“By getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president, that is guaranteed to bring in some chaos,” Casap allegedly wrote.
