A recently unsealed federal warrant says 17-year-old Nikita Casap bought a drone and explosives and told other people about his plans.
In Milwaukee, a Wisconsin teenager is facing serious charges linked to the deaths of his parents. The accusations have expanded to include claims that he may have killed them in order to finance a plot to eliminate President Donald Trump and overthrow the government. These claims are based on details revealed in a federal warrant that has recently been made public.
Seventeen-year-old Nikita Casap has been accused by authorities in Waukesha County of first-degree murder, theft, and other offenses in connection to the killings of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer. It is alleged that the teenager shot them at their residence on the outskirts of Milwaukee in February. After the incident, he reportedly lived in the house with their bodies for several weeks, before fleeing with $14,000 in cash, passports, and even the family dog. Casap was apprehended in Kansas last month.
Currently held in custody at the Waukesha County jail on a bond of $1 million, Casap is expected to appear in court next month to enter a plea. The federal warrant, unveiled by the FBI on Friday, sheds light on the broader accusations he is facing.
Federal authorities accuse 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 says. “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.
Federal prosecutors alleged Casap’s manifesto outlined his reasons for wanting to kill Trump and included ideas about how he would live in Ukraine.
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.”
Phone and online messages seeking comment were left Sunday for Casap’s public defender, Nicole Ostrowski. In court last month, she 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.
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.
