A US teenager has been charged with first degree murder for killing his parents and then fleeing home with $14,000 cash, passports and the family dog.
According to an unsealed FBI warrant, the federal authorities are accusing Casap of planning his parents' murders, buying a drone and explosives, and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian speaker. His intentions are detailed in a three-page antisemitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler.
A US teenager has been charged with first degree murder for killing his parents and then fleeing home with $14,000 cash, passports and the family dog.
Identified as Nikita Casap, the Wisconsin teenager was allegedly planning to assassinate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government, according to a recently unsealed federal warrant.
Nikita Casap is a 17 year old boy from Wisconsin in US and he was arrested in March from Kansas for killing his parents and allegedly plotting murder against US President Donald Trump.
Ahead of the arrest, the school Casap went to, alerted the authorities after he missed school for over two weeks.
According to Associated Press, federal prosecutors alleged Casap's manifesto outlined his reasons for wanting to kill Trump and included ideas about how he would live in Ukraine.
Waukesha County authorities charged Nikita Casap with first-degree murder, theft and other crimes in the deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer.
Authorities allege the teenager fatally shot them at their home outside Milwaukee in February and lived with the decomposing bodies for weeks before fleeing with $14,000 cash, passports and the family dog.
He was then arrested in Kansas.
Casap, in custody at the Waukesha County jail on a $1 million bond, is due in court next month to enter a plea.
According to AP, the county prosecutors have revelaed the federal allegations from an unsealed FBI warrant.
According to that, the federal authorities are accusing Casap of planning his parents' murders, buying a drone and explosives, and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian speaker. His intentions are detailed in a three-page antisemitic manifesto praising Adolf Hitler.
The warrant filed at the federal court in Milwaukee also contains excerpts of communications on TikTok and the Telegram messenger app.
"Casap appears to have written a manifest calling for the assassination of the President of the United States. He was in touch with other parties about his plan to kill the President and overthrow the government of the United States," the search warrant reported said.
"The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan."
In court, prosecutors alleged Casap was in touch with a person who speaks Russian and shared a plan to flee to Ukraine. Authorities found him in Kansas with money, passports, a car and the family's dog.
Citing Casap's writings, the federal warrant said the teenager wanted to spur governmental collapse by "by getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president."
County authorities also charged Casap with hiding a corpse, theft and misappropriating identification to obtain money.
Officers found the bodies of Tatiana Casap, 35; and Mayer, 51, on Feb. 28. Family members requested a well-being check after Mayer didn't report for work and Nikita Casap skipped school for about two weeks.
Authorities believe the parents were killed weeks earlier.
Prosecutors said in court that the couple's bodies were so badly decomposed that they had to be identified through dental records.
Casap is represented by public defender, Nicole Ostrowski who moved to dismiss some of the charges against her client, including theft, arguing that prosecutors had not laid out their case. She's also noted her client's age during court proceedings.
"He is young, he is still in high school," she said on March 12.
(With AP Inputs)