According to court documents, a man who was about to wed the suspect in the death of a U.S. Border Patrol agent was also detained and charged with the murder of a Californian three days prior to the agent’s shooting death.
The allegations against Maximilian Snyder are the most recent development in the case of his 21-year-old Seattle companion, Teresa Youngblut. She is charged with shooting Border Patrol officers during a traffic check in northern Vermont last week, starting a gunfight that claimed agent David Chris Maland’s life. Youngblut was accompanied by a German national who was also killed.
According to police records, Youngblut’s parents reported her missing in May 2024. According to a police record acquired by NBC News, Youngblut’s parents informed Seattle police at the time that she had moved out, changed her phone number, and stopped communicating with her pals.
According to the police report, the parents were worried that Youngblut might be in a domineering relationship or that she might have been coerced into doing these things.
Although Snyder is not named in the report, King County, Washington, court records show that in November 2024, he and Youngblut submitted a marriage application.
Both of them had gone to Seattle’s esteemed private high school, the Lakeside School. According to his LinkedIn page, Snyder continued his education at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, where he studied computer science and philosophy. Youngblut had attended the University of Washington to study computer science.
According to authorities, Snyder killed a man by stabbing him on January 17 in Vallejo, California, which is 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, two months after the pair sought for a marriage certificate.
Curtis Lind, an 82-year-old victim, was slain just before he was scheduled to testify against two individuals accused of a horrific assault on him in 2022.
On November 13, 2022, Lind’s family posted on a GoFundMe website that he had been stabbed several times, had a sword impaled through his chest, and had lost his right eye.
In 2022, Patrick McMillian, a resident of a mobile home on Lind’s land, told NBC Bay Area that the incident was caused by an eviction dispute.
“I woke up and came out when he knocked on my door,” McMillan claimed. He had a blade sticking through him and blood oozing out as he exclaimed, “I’m dying.”
During the assault, Lind was able to shoot two of the attackers, killing one and wounding the other, according to McMillan.
According to Snyder’s criminal complaint, C.L. was a witness to a crime who was purposefully slain to keep him from testifying in court.
No other information was given. However, according to documents, two of the suspects in Lind’s attack were scheduled to stand trial this year. Youngblut is not accused in the case, and it is unknown how Snyder is related to the suspects.
Snyder faces a murder charge. His family could not be contacted, and his attorney declined to comment.
According to the prosecution, Youngblut’s friends may have committed further murders.
According to court documents filed by federal prosecutors in Vermont, Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, the man she was with when the Border Patrol agent was shot, purchased the firearms from a person of interest in a double homicide case in Pennsylvania. There was no more information given.
The prosecution has not stated if they think Maland, the deceased agent, was hit by a fellow officer’s bullet or by one of the shots Youngblut allegedly fired. Two federal weapons charges have been brought against Youngblut. Her attorney has refrained from commenting.
According to the prosecution, Youngblut and Bauckholt were carrying a sizable arsenal of weapons and tactical gear, such as a ballistic helmet, night vision equipment, and 48 rounds of jacketed hollow point ammunition in the caliber of.380.
According to court filings, Homeland Security Investigations had been monitoring the two in the days before the shooting after a hotel employee voiced concerns about them. Youngblut was observed with a gun, according to court filings, and the two were dressed in all-black tactical apparel and protective gear.
According to court filings, the registered owner, Bauckholt, had an expired visa on a Department of Homeland Security database when their Toyota Prius was pulled up. However, according to the FBI, Bauckholt’s visa was valid.