Summarize and humanize this content to 2000 words in 6 paragraphs in EnglishA member of the trans vegan ‘death cult’ unleashed a series of bold claims in a wild outburst that rocked a California court room. Alexander ‘Somni’ Leatham, a 29-year-old trans woman and member of the Zizians, ranted to the judge that a jailhouse guard had threatened her life and had been trying to de-transition her. Leatham is charged alongside fellow cult member Suri Dao for the murder of another Zizian member, Emma Borhanian, who died while the trio attacked their landlord, Curtis Lind, in 2022. The Zizian group leader, Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota who is a trans woman, is accused of influencing followers of the cult to kill. Among her claims, Leatham yelled to the court on Tuesday, ‘I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal. If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!’ The accused killer was reading from what appeared to be a prepared statement in court while handcuffed and in a wheelchair, SF Gate reported. Leatham spoke over Judge John B. Ellis of her claims that a specific officer told her she ‘deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun and I was in chains,’ according to the outlet. ‘The court has been hormonally de-transitioning me for a quarter of a decade as part of a state-sponsored conversion therapy program,’ she continued. Alexander ‘Somni’ Leatham, a 29-year-old trans woman and an alleged murderous member of the Zizians, appeared in court on Tuesday and claimed that a jailhouse guard had threatened her life and had been de-transitioning her Leatham spoke over Judge John B. Ellis of her claims that a specific officer told her she ‘deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun and I was in chains’ Their leader, Jack ‘Ziz’ LaSota (pictured), who is a trans woman was accused of influencing followers of the cult to kill. The group of ‘rationalist’ vegans, with many members being transgender, hold fringe ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rightsHer outburst barred her from the rest of the hearing as Judge Ellis ordered her into an isolation room. ‘If defendant Leatham can’t behave herself, she can be moved to the isolation booth,’ Ellis said, which would allow Leatham to appear over camera and muted if necessary. The hearing was adjourned early due to a defense attorney’s broken foot, and the next is scheduled for April 22. Leatham has made a court room commotion before in March at a previous hearing. She began yelling repeatedly that ‘this is a show trial to coordinate the genocide of transgender people,’ until she was removed from court. Leatham and her co-cult member Dao face charges related to the attack on Lind in 2022, which stemmed from a dispute about unpaid rent. Yet, the incident left fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian dead after she was shot by Lind in self-defense. Leatham and Dao face charges of murder, attempted murder and aggravated mayhem in the death of Borhanian. Leatham and her co-cult member Suri Dao face charges related to the attack on Lind in 2022, which stemmed from a dispute about unpaid rent. Prosecutors argued that the two cult members were responsible for Emma Borhanian’s death in the attack Lind (pictured) walked away from the initial confrontation alive but had lost an eye after he was stabbed by a samurai sword allegedly by Leatham. He told police that he awoke with around 50 stab wounds, the sword in his torso, and all three cult members stood over him The Vallejo landlord was the only witness left to testify against the cult members, until he was murdered in a separate knife attack just before he could testify in January 2025Prosecutors have argued that their actions led to the death of their fellow cult member. Lind, however, walked away from the initial confrontation alive but had lost an eye after he was stabbed by a samurai sword allegedly by Leatham. After inspecting Dao’s trailer, of which he planned to evict the cult members from, Lind was hit on the back of the head and blacked out. He told police that he awoke with around 50 stab wounds, the sword in his torso, and all three cult members stood over him. The Vallejo landlord was the only witness left to testify against the cult members, until he was murdered in a separate knife attack just before he could testify in January 2025. In Lind’s murder, Maximillian ‘Audere’ Synder, an Oxford University graduate and fellow cult member, was arrested and charged and awaits trial. Other members of the cult are facing a slew of other charges, including the group’s leader who was arrested in February. Last year, Synder’s fiancée Teresa ‘Milo’ Consuelo Youngblut and Felix ‘Ophelia’ Bauckholt allegedly shot David Maland, a Border Patrol Officer, in Vermont after he stopped their car. Last year, Synder’s fiancée Teresa ‘Milo’ Consuelo Youngblut and Felix ‘Ophelia’ Bauckholt allegedly shot David Maland, a Border Patrol Officer, in Vermont Felix Baukholt (pictured) was killed in the altercation between the cult members and Border Patrol Officer Maland, who died from gunshot wounds Pictured: Border Patrol Officer David Maland who was killed after he stopped the cult members car near the Canadian border in Vermont Maland shot and killed Bauckholt in the confrontation before he died from his own wounds. Michelle ‘Jamie’ Zajko, 33, is a person of interest in the shooting that killed her parents in Pennsylvania. The Zizian’s leader, LaSota, who allegedly faked her own death in 2022, is wanted in two states but has not been charged or pinned as a person of interest in connection to any of the killings. Zizians, are known as a group of ‘rationalist’ vegans, with many members being transgender who Leatham allegedly conspired with, and hold fringe ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights. Back in 2019, the group allegedly held a protest by blocking the exists of the Westminster Camp and Conference Center with multiple vehicles while dressed in robes and Guy Fawkes masks.Community warnings posted in online forums about the group cite the protest and the 2022 stabbing as evidence of their potential danger.Jessica Taylor, a friend of Bauckholt’s, who she knew as ‘Ophelia,’ claims she tried to protect her friend against the strange ‘cult’.Taylor says she warned Bauckholt about ‘Zizians,’ calling them a ‘murder gang’.She added that she fell out of communication with Bauckholt in late 2023. Teresa Youngblut at Newport City Inn and Suites in Vermont before the shooting Maximilian Snyder, 22, and Teresa Youngblut, 21, are now at the center of a sprawling federal investigation as law enforcement officials investigate ties to another unsolved murder case in Pennsylvania. Pictured: Richard Zajko (right), 71, and his wife Rita (left), 69 were found dead in their Pennsylvania home in 2023It is not clear what kind of, if any, structure the group has.She said the group believes in timeless decision theory, a Rationalist belief suggesting that human decisions and their effects are mathematically quantifiable.The Zizians also apparently believe that because there are two hemispheres in the brain, individuals can split their consciousness between two personalities by waking one side at a time, Taylor said.She said veganism and animal rights are central to the ideology.A bio for an Instagram account that appears to belong to Youngblut reads, ‘talk to me about being vegan and AI alignment’.Snyder and Youngblut’s social media posts and accounts reportedly displayed beliefs consistent with Zizianism but their accounts have since been removed. Court records do not explicitly tie them to the ideology.
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