A man who planned to marry the suspect in the murder of a border patrol agent of the United States was arrested and accused of killing a resident of California only three days before the agent was shot dead, as shown in the records. judicial
The charges against the man, Maximilian Snyder, mark the last turn in the saga that involves his partner, Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle. She is accused of opening fire against the border patrol agents during a traffic stop in northern Vermont last week, triggering a shooting that resulted in the death of agent David “Chris” Maland. A German national who travels with Youngblut was also killed.
Youngblut was reported as disappeared by his parents in May 2024, according to police records. His parents told Seattle officers at that time that Youngblut had left home, changed their phone number and cut the contact with their friends, says a police report obtained by NBC News.
The parents were concerned that Youngblut could have been “forced to take these actions or that she can be in a controlling relationship,” says the police report.
The report does not identify Snyder by name, but he and Youngblut submitted a marriage application in November 2024, according to judicial records in King County, Washington.
Both had attended Lakeside School, a prestigious private secondary school in Seattle. Snyder went on to study philosophy and computer science at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, according to its LinkedIn page. Youngblut had been studying computer science at the University of Washington.
Two months after the couple requested a marriage license, the police say that Snyder fatally stabbed a man in Vallejo, California, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, on January 17.
The victim, Curtis Lind, 82, was killed not long before she was willing to testify against two people accused in a horrible assault in 2022.
Lind was “stabbed several times, he had a sword impaled in his chest and finally lost his right eye” on November 13, 2022, his family said on a Gofundme page.
A man who lived in a mobile house on the property of Lind, Patrick McMillian, told the NBC Bay area in 2022 that the incident arose from an eviction dispute.
“He hit my door and woke up and left,” McMillan said. “He said ‘I’m dying’, and he had blood that was going and a sword that crossed him.”
McMillan said Lind managed to shoot two of the attackers during that assault, killing one and hurting the other.
“CL witnessed a crime that was intentionally murdered in order to prevent his testimony in a criminal procedure,” says Snyder’s criminal complaint.
No other details were provided. But two of the suspects in the attack on Lind were scheduled to judge this year, according to the records. Snyder’s connection with the suspects is not clear, and there are no accusations against Youngblut in the case.
Snyder has been accused of murder. His lawyer declined to comment, and his family could not be contacted.
Prosecutors say that California’s murder may not be the only one made by Youngblut’s associates.
Federal prosecutors in Vermont said in judicial documents that the weapons that Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt have, the man with whom he was at the time of shooting the border patrol agent, were bought by a person who is a person of interest in interest in A double homicide in Pennsylvania. No other information was provided.
The prosecutors have not said if they believe that Malend, the fallen agent, was beaten by one of the bullets that Youngblut supposedly shot or for a shot of an official partner. Youngblut has been accused of two federal weapons counts. His lawyer has refused to comment.
Prosecutors have said that Youngblut and Bauckholt were traveling with a large collection of weapons and tactical equipment, including 48 rounds of hollow point ammunition with .380 gauge jacket, a ballistic helmet and night vision equipment.
The couple had been under surveillance for national security investigations in the days prior to the shooting, according to judicial documents, after a hotel employee reported concerns about them. The couple carried “totally black tactical -style clothes with protective equipment”, and Youngblut was seen carrying a weapon, according to judicial documents.
When his Toyota Prius was arrested, Bauckholt, the registered owner, seemed to have a visa expired in a database of the National Security Department, according to judicial documents. But the FBI has said that Bauckholt’s visa was, in fact, current.
