#Violence

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People (6)

Curtis Lind Curtis Lind was a Vallejo landlord who rented property to members of the Zizian group, survived a 2022 sword attack in which he killed one assailant in self-defense, and was stabbed to death in January 2025 shortly before he was due to testify against the group.
Felix Bauckholt Felix 'Ophelia' Bauckholt was a German national and elite quantitative trader, a former informatics-olympiad gold medalist and Tower Research Capital trader, who became part of the Zizian group and was shot dead in the January 2025 Vermont shootout that killed Border Patrol agent David Maland.
Jack LaSota Jack LaSota, who writes under the persona 'Ziz,' is an Alaska-born computer programmer and former rationalist who founded the group known as the Zizians around a theory of brain hemispheres and militant veganism, and who was arrested in Maryland in February 2025 as the group was tied to six deaths across three states.
Maximilian Snyder Maximilian Snyder is a former University of Oxford student connected to the Zizian group who was charged with the January 2025 capital murder of Vallejo landlord Curtis Lind, allegedly to prevent Lind from testifying against other members of the group.
Michelle Zajko Member of the Zizian group charged in June 2026 with the December 2022 murder of her parents in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania, which she denies, and charged federally over firearms used in the Vermont shooting.
Teresa Youngblut Teresa Youngblut is a member of the Zizian group charged in federal court with the January 2025 murder of U.S. Border Patrol agent David Maland during a Vermont traffic stop, in a case in which the Department of Justice has filed notice that it will seek the death penalty.

Organizations (1)

The Zizians Small group around Jack LaSota that split from the Bay Area rationalist movement, tied to six deaths in California, Pennsylvania and Vermont between 2022 and 2025, including a Border Patrol agent's.