US Teen Charged With Killing Parents To Obtain Money For Trump Assassination Plot

A US teenager has been charged with the killing of his parents as part of a larger plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation. 

Nikita Casap, 17, has been charged with the murder of his mother Tatiana Casap, 35, and his stepfather Donald Mayer, 51, who were found dead at their home on 28 February, reported BBC. 

A newly unsealed search warrant also alleged that the Wisconsin teen's phone contained material relating to a neo-Nazi group called the Order of Nine Angles and praise for Adolf Hitler.

According to the court document, investigators have also found antisemitic writings allegedly detailing his plans to kill Trump as a part of a broader goal to overthrow the government. 

Casap is accused of first-degree international homicide and seven other felony counts, including hiding a corpse and identity theft. 

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Murder Of Parents 

The suspect's parents were found dead when local officials visited their home in the village of Waukesha, near Milwaukee, after the boy failed to attend school for two weeks. 

Mayer died of a gunshot wound to the head while Tatiana died from multiple gunshot wounds on or about February 11, as per a criminal complaint concerning the teenager. 

Their bodies were discovered the same day and the defendant was pulled over by police in the state of Kansas while driving a 2018 Volkswagen Atlas belonging to Mayer, according to the investigators. 

A Smith & Wesson .357 pistol was inside the car along with four credit cards belonging to the couple, "multiple pieces" of valuable jewellery, a pried-open safe and $14,000 (£10,700) in currency, most of which was inside a Bible, the criminal complaint stated. 

According to the search warrant, the suspect had expressed white supremacist beliefs in the writings found by the investigators and called for Trump's assassination to start a political revolution. 

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Money For Assassination Plot 

The investigators said that the alleged double murder "appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan." 

The suspect was speaking with people in Russia about plans to kill his parents, the court documents alleged. 

The teenager paid for a drone and explosives to use in an attack, the authorities said, adding he had plans to escape to Ukraine. 

"He was in touch with other parties about his plan to kill the president and overthrow the government of the United States," investigators wrote.

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