{"id":8020,"date":"2025-02-22T13:37:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T13:37:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/investigations-into-6-killings-look-to-a-fringe-group-known-as-the-zizians\/"},"modified":"2025-02-22T13:37:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-22T13:37:08","slug":"investigations-into-6-killings-look-to-a-fringe-group-known-as-the-zizians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/investigations-into-6-killings-look-to-a-fringe-group-known-as-the-zizians\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigations Into 6 Killings Look to a Fringe Group Known as the Zizians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A series of violent confrontations across the United States believed to be linked to members of a fringe group known as the Zizians has left at least six people dead, including a Border Patrol agent shot in Vermont, a man stabbed in California and a couple shot in a double homicide in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Seven people are currently in custody in connection with the sprawling web of crimes, which came further into view this week after three people were arrested on trespassing charges in Maryland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Law enforcement and news media reports have connected these individuals to the \u201cZizians,\u201d a name for the followers of a person known as \u201cZiz,\u201d who blogged about self-improvement, ethics and artificial intelligence. The group\u2019s goals aren&#8217;t completely clear but <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/zizians.info\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">online writings<\/a> about their beliefs touch upon veganism, artificial intelligence and gender identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The latest arrests in Maryland have brought renewed attention to the rash of cases across state lines, and prosecutors have said that they have the group\u2019s leader in custody on trespassing and weapon charges. Legal representatives listed in court records for some of the defendants could not be immediately reached or had no comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Here\u2019s what we know.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-74a4a33d\">Three are held on trespassing charges in Maryland.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Feb. 16, law enforcement authorities in Allegany County, Md., arrested Jack LaSota, 34, Michelle Zajko, 32, and Daniel Blank, 26, for an incident in Frostburg, Md., a small city about 130 miles west of Baltimore. LaSota and Zajko were accused of trespassing, obstruction, and possessing a handgun. Blank did not face the weapon charge, but was arraigned on the other charges, while Zajko was also charged with resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">They were located after a resident reported three \u201csuspicious\u201d people on his property who had requested to camp there for a month, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/02\/18\/us\/leader-zizian-group-held-without-bail\/index.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to CNN<\/a>. When police arrived, two of the suspects were sitting in a box truck wearing gun belts with ammunition, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/police-arrest-apparent-leader-cultlike-zizian-group-linked-multiple-killings-us\/15925626\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press and ABC 6 in Philadelphia<\/a> reported. A search of the truck discovered a long rifle in the back and a handgun on the floorboard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The complaint in the case, as detailed by The A.P. and ABC 6, noted that \u201call of the subjects involved are to be questioned regarding other crimes that have occurred across the country.\u201d County prosecutors and local law enforcement did not respond to repeated requests for more details on the arrests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Feb. 18, prosecutors said that Jack LaSota, also known as Ziz, \u201cappears to be the leader of an extremist group known as Zizians,\u201d which has been linked to multiple killings, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/zizians-killings-court-hearing-border-patrol-6ccc6df040f40c2f7d835f92c2b24a05\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The A.P. reported<\/a>. James Elliott, the state\u2019s attorney in Allegany County, noted in that hearing that LaSota had faked their own death. During the hearing, LaSota denied having done anything wrong and expressed a \u201cmild state of delirium\u201d because of lack of food.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">LaSota\u2019s beliefs are centered around upending moral norms, practicing extreme veganism and accepting the concept of gendered brain hemispheres, according to Zizians.info, a website that is critical of the group. The group itself does not appear to have an official presence online, outside of old blog posts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The three defendants were held without bail and will next appear in court on March 24.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-4330721a\">A federal agent is shot in Vermont.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In January, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/24\/us\/border-patrol-agent-shooting-arrest.html\" title=\"\">federal authorities arrested<\/a> Teresa Youngblut in connection with a confrontation that led to the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Coventry, Vt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The Border Patrol said that Youngblut drew a handgun and fired it at agents without warning during a routine traffic stop on Jan. 20. The agent, David Maland, 44, and Youngblut\u2019s companion in the vehicle, Felix Bauckholt, died from gunshot wounds in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-4\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Teresa Youngblut was charged with assaulting federal law enforcement officers with a deadly weapon, though no murder charge has been filed in relation to Mr. Maland\u2019s death. Youngblut was being <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/01\/30\/us\/border-patrol-shooting-suspect-bail.html\" title=\"\">held without bail<\/a> and would face a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years and a maximum sentence of life in prison if convicted, a federal prosecutor said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-5\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">According to an F.B.I. affidavit, Youngblut and Bauckholt had been under surveillance for nearly a week when the shooting occurred. Investigators said that they found tactical gear, night-vision goggles, a magazine loaded with cartridges and ammunition in their vehicle after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A task force agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives later revealed that the firearms carried by the two on the day of the shooting had been purchased by a third person, Michelle Zajko, who was later arrested in Maryland. Zajko was also a \u201cperson of interest\u201d in an investigation into a dual homicide on Dec. 31, 2022, in Delaware County, Pa., according to the A.T.F. complaint. The victims were Zajko\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Zajko faces a federal charge of making a false statement to a gun licensee by providing a fake address when purchasing the guns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prosecutors also linked Teresa Youngblut to a fourth person, identified in police and court records cited in <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/openvallejo.org\/2025\/01\/27\/suspects-in-killings-of-vallejo-witness-vermont-border-patrol-agent-connected-by-marriage-license-extreme-ideology\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">news reports<\/a> as Maximilian Snyder, who has been arrested in connection to a killing in Vallejo, Calif.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-def6c30\">A landlord is stabbed, twice, in California.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Snyder is accused in the Jan. 17 fatal stabbing of Curtis Lind, 82, a landlord who was set to testify this spring against two former tenants, Suri Dao and Alexander Leatham, who have ties to the Zizians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-6\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Lind had survived a previous attempt on his life in November 2022, when Dao, Leatham and their associate, Emma Borhanian, ambushed him and stabbed him multiple times, leaving him with a samurai sword impaled on his chest, according to a family account posted online and <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/openvallejo.org\/2025\/01\/27\/man-killed-in-vallejo-was-main-witness-in-upcoming-murder-trial\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">a news report in Open Vallejo<\/a>. Mr. Lind was hospitalized for a month and lost his right eye in that attack.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Borhanian, 31, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/new-details-bay-area-zizians-death-cult-20165754.php?u\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">was killed during that altercation<\/a>, when Mr. Lind shot at the trio of attackers, according to media reports and court documents. Dao and Leatham face murder charges in Borhanian\u2019s death and attempted murder charges in Mr. Lind\u2019s previous stabbing, according news reports, with a trial date set for April 2.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-7\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Referring to the second and fatal attack, the complaint filed against Maximilian Snyder said that Mr. Lind was \u201cintentionally killed for the purpose of preventing his testimony in a criminal proceeding\u201d or to retaliate for his testimony, according to <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/abc7news.com\/post\/maximilian-snyder-teresa-youngbult-vallejo-murder-vermont-border-patrol-shooting\/15845007\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">ABC 7 San Francisco<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Public records show that Snyder and Teresa Youngblut had applied for a marriage license in King County, Wash., in November.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-8\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">While Youngblut is in jail in Vermont, Snyder is being held without bail in California, charged with murder with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-9\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<h2 class=\"css-13o6u42 eoo0vm40\" id=\"link-126cb6d7\">Questions remain in double homicide in Pennsylvania.<\/h2>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Richard Zajko, 72, and Rita Zajko, 69, were found dead in January 2023 at their home in Chester Heights, Pa., according to the Pennsylvania State Police, after they were shot. Their child, Michelle Zajko, has been questioned by police in the Dec. 31, 2022, murder, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">During a search of a hotel room where Michelle Zajko was staying for their funeral, police found a 9-millimeter gun and five boxes of ammunition; a firearm trace indicated that Michelle Zajko had purchased it in February 2022 in Vermont, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-11\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In 2023, Jack LaSota, the purported leader of the Zizians who was arrested in Maryland, was charged with obstruction and disorderly conduct when police issued a search warrant in connection with the double homicide at an address in Chester City, Pa., according to police records.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">LaSota, who was in the hotel room when the police arrived to execute the warrant, turned limp, closed their eyes and refused to comply with police orders, the authorities said. It was not the first time LaSota was said to have tried to thwart law enforcement: In August 2022, LaSota was reported to have gone missing and died in a boating accident in the San Francisco Bay, <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/bayarea\/article\/new-details-bay-area-zizians-death-cult-20165754.php?\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">according to SFGate.com<\/a>, only to be found alive more than a year later in Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     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