Two members of the Zizians — a radical vegan cult led by a so-called modern-day Charles Manson — derailed their court docket listening to this week when one launched right into a deranged tirade and the opposite sat unresponsive in a wheelchair.
Ranting Alexander Leatham, 30, and ailing anorexic Suri Dao, 23 — each of whom establish as transgender — appeared at their pre-trial continuing in Solano County, Calif., on Monday within the case of the brutal tried homicide of 82-year-old Curtis Lind with a samurai sword after he tried besides them off his land in 2022.
Leatham — a member of a cult tied to 6 murders within the US — threw a wrench into her court docket look when she started screaming on the choose.
“Curtis Lind murdered Emma Borhanian!” Leatham stored shouting, referring to a 3rd alleged attacker who Lind fatally shot through the ordeal, Courthouse Information reported.
Dao — who makes use of they/them pronouns — in the meantime needed to be pushed into the courtroom in a wheelchair, and their lawyer described them as “vegetative,” in response to the outlet.
The suspect had misplaced 32 kilos since September because of “restrictive anorexia,” mentioned the lawyer, Brian Ford, addressing the court docket just about.
The pair’s subsequent listening to was pushed to Monday, Dec. 8.
Chaotic hearings are nothing new for Leatham and Dao. In an April continuing, Leatham claimed she was being de-transitioned towards her will with hormone remedy — as a part of a “quarter century” conspiracy towards trans folks.
Leatham, Dao, and Borhanian had been squatting on Lind’s land in 2022 when the person lastly instructed them to get misplaced, prosecutors have mentioned.
Lind was inspecting a leak in Dao’s trailer when somebody hit him at the back of his head, and he blacked out, in response to authorities.
The owner instructed police he awoke with round 50 stab wounds, a samurai sword caught in his torso and the three Zizians standing over him.
Lind was nonetheless in a position to seize his gun and begin blasting, wounding Leatham and killing Borhanian, in what prosecutors referred to as self-defense.
Although he survived the ordeal, the outdated man was later murdered by one other Zizian, Maximilian Snyder, to maintain him from testifying towards the Leatham and Dao, prosecutors alleged.
The Solano County Superior Courtroom is working to consolidate Dao and Leatham’s circumstances and set a trial date — regardless of Leatham’s makes an attempt to allegedly thwart the regulation.
Snyder faces a separate murder cost for allegedly ambushing Lind and stabbing him to dying.
Leatham additionally triggered a ruckus at a listening to in March when she yelled, “It is a present trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender folks!” again and again till the choose had her tossed right into a closed-off “isolation room,” Courthouse Information reported.
The Zizians’ alleged path of violence goes past California.
Authorities paint the alleged founder, Jack “Ziz” LaSota — a trans, 34-year-old blogger and pc engineer from Berkeley — as a sort of present-day Charles Manson whose followers are tied to 6 deaths in three states.
Final yr, Snyder’s fiancé, Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut, and German nationwide Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt allegedly fatally gunned down federal agent David Maland when he stopped their automotive close to the Canadian border in Vermont.
The agent returned hearth, killing Bauckholt and wounding Youngblut, earlier than succumbing to his wounds.
The suspects’ weapons had been bought by one other Zizian, Michelle Zakjow, 32, a trans man who had been needed in reference to the deadly taking pictures of his dad and mom of their Pennsylvania dwelling.
In February, police in Deleware arrested Zakjow, fellow Zizian Daniel Clean and Ziz herself — who had tried to faux her dying in 2022.
They face expenses of trespassing, obstructing and hindering and possession of a handgun in a car.
Pennsylvania state police sources instructed The Put up they imagine that they had sufficient proof to arrest Zakjow for the murders of his dad and mom, however the Delaware County DA’s workplace mentioned cops nonetheless had not offered enough proof.
