Transgender vegan cult member accuses guards of de-transitioning her in courtroom

[ad_1] A suspected member of the unconventional "Zizian" cult was forcibly faraway from a California courtroom after claiming an officer mentioned she needs to be killed for being transgender.

Alexander "Somni" Leatham, a 29-year-old trans girl from Agoura Hills, California, was considered one of 5 alleged members of the group of radical vegans, a lot of whom recognized as trans, who have been in Solano Superior Court docket Tuesday.

Leatham alleged that an officer advised her she "deserved to be shot for being transgender whereas he had a gun, and I used to be in chains," according to SFGate. Leatham, and others within the group, face fees in reference to a string of killings throughout the nation that culminated within the January killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent alongside the northern border.

Learn extra of Fox Information Digital protection on the Zizians here .

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Alexander "Somni" Leatham claimed that an officer had advised her that she needs to be killed for being transgender. (Sonoma County Sheriff’s Workplace)

The 29-year-old reportedly went on a profanity-laden rant within the courtroom Tuesday, accusing authorities of trying to de-transition her.

"The courtroom has been hormonally detransitioning me for quarter of a decade as a part of a state-sponsored conversion remedy program," she mentioned, in response to SFGate. "I'm not suicidal. I've by no means been suicidal."

"If I'm killed in police custody, it was homicide!" Leatham mentioned.

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Choose John B. Ellis ordered Leatham to be taken to an isolation room previous to the listening to, saying that she may seem through digital camera because of her habits, SFGate reported.

"If defendant Leatham can’t behave herself, she could be moved to the isolation sales space," Ellis mentioned.

Members of the Zizians have been charged or named as individuals of curiosity in reference to six deaths throughout the nation, together with the stabbing of an 82-year-old landlord in January, the capturing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in January and the 2022 double murder of an aged Pennsylvania couple.

Leatham and Suri Dao face tried homicide fees after a hire dispute with landlord Curtis Lind that ended with Zizian follower Emma Borhanian being fatally shot by Lind in self-defense. Lind was injured by a samurai sword throughout the altercation.

On Jan. 17, 2025, Curtis Lind was viciously attacked in entrance of his property in Vallejo, California, leading to his dying. (GoFundMe)

Lind had purchased the property, putting 20-foot trailers and delivery containers on the land so he may hire them to individuals who have been unable to afford the price of housing in Vallejo, Patrick McMillan, a tenant who lives in a cell residence on the property, advised the San Francisco Chronicle . Lind additionally lived on the property.

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The group lived in a cluster of trailer vehicles, McMillan told the Chronicle . Initially, they paid hire however stopped paying throughout the pandemic.

"He had an settlement that they have been going to repair up their autos, after which they have been going to depart," Lind's daughter, Dina Morrill, advised the newspaper.

"The reality is, they jumped him," Lind's son, Carl Lind, told KTVU .

This mixture of photos from high left exhibits the 2019 Sonoma County Sheriff's workplace reserving mugshots of Jack LaSota, Alexander Leatham, Emma Borhanian and, at backside left, Gwen Danielson, a courtroom look of Maximilian Snyder and a Newport Metropolis Inn surveillance video picture of Teresa Youngblut. They're associates of LaSota, also referred to as "Ziz." (Related Press)

Lind managed to shoot two of his alleged attackers, killing considered one of them, Borhanian. Prosecutors concluded that the owner acted in self-defense.

"After they attacked him, he bought his gun out and shot two of them, killed considered one of them," McMillan advised the Chronicle. "The opposite one had three photographs to the chest."

The owner was left critically injured after the group attacked him with a samurai sword. McMillan advised KTVU that he had the sword "caught by way of his again with a few foot of it protruding in entrance."

Lind survived the preliminary assault however was then stabbed to dying in a second assault on Jan. 17, 2025. Maximilian Snyder, 22, one other "Ziz" member, was arrested and charged along with his homicide, in response to courtroom information obtained by FOX 13 Seattle.

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The subsequent listening to is ready for April 22 at 9 a.m. Fox Information Digital reached out to Leatham's lawyer.

The Related Press contributed to this report.

Sarah Rumpf-Whitten is a U.S. Author at Fox Information Digital.

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