Authorities are investigating the links between the killing of a Delaware County couple and the Jan. 20 shooting of a Border Patrol agent in northern Vermont.
The Pennsylvania State Police said the same gun used in the murder of federal agent David “Chris” Maland had been used in the Dec. 31, 2022, murder of Rita and Richard Zajko. The couple was killed inside their Chester Heights residence. The state police Media Criminal Investigation Unit has been investigating it since. No arrests have been made.
Multiple news reports have named Michelle Jaqueline Zajko, the transgender nonbinary adult child of the dead couple, as a “person of interest,” though no arrests have been made. However, an agency spokesman told DVJournal the ATF “would not comment on or discuss the existence of any ongoing investigations.”
The Albany, N.Y. Times Union reported a police bulletin reported Zajko was to be considered armed and dangerous and adheres to an “anti-law enforcement ideology.”
And according to reporting by investigative journalist Andy Ngo at the New York Post, Zajko is closely linked to the same radical leftist transgender militant cult as the suspects in the shooting at the Vermont-Canadian border.
Seattle resident Teresa “Milo” Consuelo Youngblut,21, faces charges in the agent’s death and is in federal custody. She is charged with one count of using a deadly weapon while assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent and one count of using and discharging a firearm during and in relation to that assault. She was traveling with Felix “Ophelia” Bauckholt, a German national, near the Canadian border when the Border Patrol stopped their vehicle.
Bauckholt died in a subsequent gun battle and Youngblut was injured.
The NY Post report published Thursday revealed Youngblut and Bauckholt were activists “connected to a mysterious cult of transgender ‘geniuses’ who follow a trans leader named Jack LaSota, also known by the alias ‘Ziz.'”
LaSota is a biological male who identifies as a woman, the NYPost reported, with a warrant for an arrest in Delaware County after skipping out on court hearings on an open criminal case. Zajko reportedly has ties to LaSota’s group.
Newly-sworn-in Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem made a surprise visit Thursday to the town where Maland was killed, a local Vermont news outlet reported.
The Pennsylvania State Police is requesting anyone with information pertaining to these investigations to contact PSP Tips at 1-800-4PA-TIPS (8477) or online. Individuals can also contact their local Pennsylvania State Police station, Criminal Investigation Unit.