He faces 9 felony expenses, together with two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of hiding a corpse, in keeping with Waukesha County courtroom information.
A 17-year-old from Waukesha, Wisconsin, allegedly killed his mother and father as a part of a plot to overthrow the USA authorities, together with calls to assassinate President Donald Trump, in keeping with newly unsealed federal information.
He has not but entered pleas for any of the fees, in keeping with the county courtroom docket.
Investigation Begins
Within the affidavit, authorities say they performed a welfare verify at Nikita’s house on Feb. 28, after he had been absent from faculty for roughly two weeks and following a name from a member of the family who was unable to contact Nikita’s mother and father.
After nobody answered the door, a sheriff’s deputy entered the house and located Tatiana Casap deceased, “probably from gunshot wounds,” and lined in blankets. The sheriff’s workplace then requested cellphone pings for Mayer and Nikita, discovering that each telephones have been positioned within the space of Laramie, Wyoming.
Authorities searched the Waukesha residence once more, discovering Mayer, additionally deceased from gunshot wounds and lined in blankets, within the first-floor workplace. Deputies discovered a receipt for a .357 magnum revolver however didn’t discover the gun in the home.
Based mostly on an intensive overview of safety footage, cellphone information, and witness statements, authorities consider Mayer and Tatiana Casap have been killed on Feb. 11.
Subsequent cellphone pings confirmed Nikita’s telephone stationary at a truckstop in Walcott, Iowa, on Feb. 24. Walcott police supplied safety footage displaying the teenager working Mayer’s black Volkswagen Atlas SUV, touring alone with the household canine.
Authorities listed Mayer’s automobile as stolen on the night of Feb. 28, and entered Nikita as a lacking juvenile. A bit greater than an hour later, the WaKeeney Kansas Police Division noticed and stopped Mayer’s SUV with Nikita inside.
Neo-Nazi Terror Group
Authorities arrested Nikita for automobile theft and firearm possession and seized his telephone. After acquiring a search warrant for the machine, they discovered materials associated to “The Order of 9 Angles,” a Satanic occult group created within the early Nineteen Seventies by Anton Lengthy, regarded as a pseudonym for British neo-Nazi David Myatt, in keeping with the Anti-Defamation League.
Additionally known as 09A, the group “advocates for using violence and terrorism to overthrow governments and destroy fashionable civilization,” the FBI said within the affidavit.
The company mentioned Nikita, in keeping with a overview of his telephone, was allegedly utilizing the usernames “@accelerationist” and “Awoken” and had pictures and communications referencing a self-described manifesto about assassinating Trump, making bombs, and conducting terrorist assaults.
The FBI discovered messages on Nikita’s telephone beneath the “Awoken” username by which he allegedly mentioned consuming the terrorist group’s teachings and being visited by the FBI in 2023 for what the bureau described as “unrelated web IP exercise.”
In different messages beneath the “@accelerationist” username, Nikita allegedly references a manifesto doc with an unknown consumer.
“When the time comes for me to ship my manifesto to you (in an effort to unfold it on-line), ought to or not it’s pdf?” Nikita allegedly requested the consumer.
Investigators additionally discovered screenshots of a three-page doc known as “Speed up the Collapse,” which had been generated on Feb. 28.
“The doc seems to be the manifesto referenced by @accelerationist, within the messages with the unknown consumer within the above paragraph, calling for the assassination of the President of the USA so as to foment political revolution in the USA and ’save the white race‘ from ’Jewish managed’ politicians,” the affidavit reads.
The third web page contained pictures of Adolf Hitler with the textual content “HAIL HITLER HAIL THE WHITE RACE HAIL VICTORY.”
The FBI included a number of excerpts from the alleged manifesto, together with the next:
“As to why, particularly Trump, I believe it’s apparent. By eliminating the president and maybe the vp, that’s assured to usher in some chaos. And never solely that, however it can additional convey into the general public the concept assassinations and accelerating the collapse are doable issues to do.”
Plan for Drone Assault
FBI investigators additionally discovered a picture and messages on Nikita’s telephone with data on utilizing a drone for a drone assault, together with making one from a equipment that avoids detection, the affidavit says.
The teenager seemingly paid, at the very least partly, for the drone and explosives for an assault, investigators mentioned, in keeping with conversations Nikita allegedly had with a consumer informing him easy methods to convert a drone right into a weapon of mass destruction.
A search of the teenager’s telephone additionally discovered pictures of Mayer’s credit score and debit playing cards, in addition to the username and password of a checking account.
In March, a classmate advised police that Nikita had talked about plans of killing his mother and father however didn’t have entry to a gun, the affidavit says, including that he then advised the classmate he would befriend somebody who owned a gun so he may steal it.
The FBI additionally mentioned that Nikita had advised the classmate that he was talking with somebody in Russia who was planning on overthrowing the U.S. authorities and assassinating Trump.
An arraignment for Nikita is scheduled for Might 7, in keeping with the Waukesha County courtroom docket.