Teenager accused of killing parents to ‘obtain financial means’ to assassinate Donald Trump

A teenager has been accused of killing his parents so he could “obtain the financial means” to assassinate Donald Trump and overthrow the US government, according to an FBI warrant.

Nikita Casap, 17, from Wisconsin, was charged last month with two counts of first-degree intentional homicide following the deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer.

Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese said Casap shot his mother at least three times – twice in the stomach and once in the neck – on 11 February, Sky News’ US partner network NBC News reports.

Prosecutors said the teenager killed Mr Mayer by shooting him in the back of the head the same day, according to US media reports.

Casap allegedly went to school the next day and continued to live at home with the bodies until 23 February.

Authorities allege he fled with $14,000 (£10,625) in cash, passports and the family dog.

Ms Casap and Mr Mayer’s bodies were found in a state of decay on 28 February after Mr Mayer’s mother – who had not heard from him in weeks – called the sheriff’s office for a welfare check.

Casap was arrested the same day after running a stop sign while driving Mr Mayer’s Volkswagen Atlas in WaKeeney, Kansas, 800 miles away from his Wisconsin home.

The teenager, who is in custody at the Waukesha County jail in Wisconsin on a $1m bond (£757,720), is due in court next month to enter a plea.

He is also facing two counts of hiding a corpse, a charge regarding theft of property over $10,000 (£7,577) and two charges of misappropriating ID to obtain money.

More details about the allegations against Casap have now emerged after they were outlined in an FBI warrant which was unsealed on Friday.

It states that Casap allegedly wrote a manifesto “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 continues.

“The killing of his parents appeared to be an effort to obtain the financial means and autonomy necessary to carrying out his plan.”

It is alleged Casap outlined reasons for wanting to kill Mr Trump 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.

In court, prosecutors alleged Casap was in touch with a person who speaks Russian and shared a plan to flee to Ukraine.

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Federal prosecutors allege the manifesto included ideas about how he would live in the war-torn country.

Citing Casap’s writings, the federal warrant says the teenager wanted to spur governmental collapse by “by getting rid of the president and perhaps the vice president”.

Casap’s public defender, Nicole Ostrowski, moved to dismiss some of the charges, including theft, against her client last month.

She argued that prosecutors had not laid out their case.

She has also noted her client’s age during court proceedings.

“He is young, he is still in high school,” she said on 12 March.

Meanwhile, prosecutors said in court that Ms Casap and Mr Mayer’s bodies were so badly decomposed they had to be identified through dental records.