MADISON, Wis. (AP) – A Wisconsin man is accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to finance a scheme…
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin man accused of killing his parents and stealing their money to finance a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump will enter a plea deal Thursday to resolve the case.
Nikita Casap, 18, is expected to agree to the deal during a morning hearing in Waukesha County Circuit Court in suburban Milwaukee. He goes to the hearing facing multiple charges, including two counts of murder, two counts of concealing a corpse and robbery, and the trial is set to begin on March 2.
Online court records did not mention the terms of the settlement. Harm Venhuizen, a spokesman for the Public Prosecution Service, which represents Casap, said Supreme Court ethics rules prevent the office from commenting on cases. The Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to questions about the deal.
According to a criminal complaint, investigators believe Casap shot his mother, Tatiana Casap, and his stepfather, Donald Mayer, on or around Feb. 11 at their home in the Village of Waukesha.
He lived with the decomposing bodies for weeks before fleeing across the country in his stepfather’s SUV with $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather’s gun and the family dog, the complaint said. He was eventually arrested during a traffic stop in Kansas on February 28.
Federal authorities have accused Casap of planning the murders of his parents, buying a drone and explosives and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian-speaking one. They said in a federal search warrant that he had written a manifesto calling for Trump’s assassination and had been in contact with others about his plan to kill Trump and overthrow the U.S. government.
“The murder of his parents appeared to be an attempt to obtain the financial resources and autonomy necessary to carry out his plan,” the warrant said.
Detectives found multiple messages on Casap’s cellphone from January 2025 in which Casap asks how long he should hide before being transferred to Ukraine. An unknown person responded in Russian, the complaint said, but the document does not say what that person told Casap. In another message, Casap asks: “So while I’m in Ukraine I can live a normal life? Even if it’s discovered I did it?”
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