A man who planned to marry the suspect in the murder of an agent of the American border patrol himself was arrested and accused of having assassinated a resident of California only three days before the agent was killed, according to Judicial archives.
The accusations against the man, Maximilian Snyder, are the last touch of the saga involving his partner, Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle. She is accused of opening fire on the border patrol agents during a traffic stop in the north of Vermont last week, triggering a shooting that led to the death of agent David “Chris” Maland. A German national traveling with Youngblut was also killed.
According to police files, Youngblut was missing by his parents in May 2024. His parents told Seattle officers at the time that Youngblut had left the house, changed his phone number and had cut off with contact with His friends, according to a police report obtained by NBC News.
Parents feared that Youngblut could have been “forced to take these measures or that it could be in a control relationship,” said the police report.
The report does not identify Snyder by name, but he and Youngblut made a marriage request in November 2024, according to the judicial archives of King, Washington.
They both attended the Lakeside school, a prestigious private high school in Seattle. Snyder then studied philosophy and computer science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, according to his LinkedIn page. Youngblut had studied IT at Washington University.
Two months after the couple asked for a marriage license, police said Snyder fatally stabbed a man in Vallejo, California, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco on January 17.
The victim, Curtis Lind, 82, was killed shortly before he testified against two people charged in a horrible assault on him in 2022.
Lind was “stabbed several times, passed a sword in his chest and finally lost his right eye” on November 13, 2022, said his family on a GoFundme page.
A man who lived in a mobile house on the property of Lind, told Patrick McMillian, the NBC Bay region in 2022 that the incident came from an expulsion dispute.
“He hit my door and I woke up and I got out,” said McMillan. “He said” I am dying “and he had blood to slip and a sword that crossed him.”
McMillan said Lind managed to shoot two of the attackers during this assault, killing one and injuring the other.
“CL was a witness to a crime that was intentionally killed in order to prevent his testimony in criminal proceedings,” said Snyder’s criminal complaint.
No other details have been provided. But two of the suspects of the attack on Lind were to be tried this year, according to the files. Snyder’s link with the suspects is not clear, and there is no allegation against Youngblut in the case.
Snyder was accused of murder. His lawyer refused to comment and his family could not be joined.
Prosecutors say that murder in California may not be the only one to achieve by Associates of Youngblut’s.
The federal prosecutors of Vermont declared in court documents that the weapons owned by Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, the man with whom she was at the time of the shooting of the border patrol agent, were bought by a person who is A person interested in a double homicide in Pennsylvania. No other information has been provided.
The prosecutors did not say if they believed that Maland, the fell agent, was struck by one of the bullets that Youngblut would have fired or by a shot from a colleague. Youngblut was accused of two federal weapons counts. His lawyer refused to comment.
The prosecutors said that Youngblut and Bauckholt were traveling with a large collection of tactical weapons and equipment, including 48 rowns of hollow hint ammunition .380, a ballistic helmet and night vision equipment.
The pair had been under surveillance by internal security surveys in the days preceding the shooting, according to court documents, after a hotel employee reported concerns about them. The pair wore “fully black tactical style clothes with protective equipment”, and Youngblut was seen bearing a firearm, according to legal documents.
When their Toyota Prius was arrested, Bauckholt, the registered owner, seemed to have an expired visa in a database of the Ministry of Internal Security, according to court documents. But the FBI said that the Bauckholt visa was, in fact, at the current.
