A man who planned to marry the suspect in the killing of a U. Border Patrol agent has himself been arrested and accused of murdering a California resident just three days before the agent was fatally shot, court records show. The charges against the man, Maximilian Snyder, a re the latest twist in the saga involving his partner, Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle. A German national traveling with Youngblut was also killed. Youngblut was reported missing by her parents in May , according to police records.
Her parents told Seattle officers at the time that Youngblut had left home, changed her phone number and cut off contact with her friends, a police report obtained by NBC News says. The report does not identify Snyder by name, but he and Youngblut filed a marriage application in November , according to court records in King County, Washington.
They had both attended the Lakeside School, a prestigious private high school in Seattle. Snyder went on to study philosophy and computer science at the University of Oxford in the U. Youngblut had been studying computer science at the University of Washington. Two months after the couple applied for a marriage license, police say Snyder fatally stabbed a man in Vallejo, California, 30 miles northeast of San Francisco, on Jan.
The victim, Curtis Lind, 82, was killed not long before he was set to testify against two people charged in a horrifying assault on him in McMillan said Lind managed to shoot two of the attackers during that assault, killing one and wounding the other. No other details were provided. But two of the suspects in the attack on Lind were set to go on trial this year, records show. Snyder's connection to the suspects is unclear, and there are no allegations against Youngblut in the case. Snyder has been charged with murder.
His lawyer declined to comment, and his family could not be reached. Prosecutors say the California killing may not be the only one carried out by associates of Youngblut's. Federal prosecutors in Vermont said in court papers that the guns possessed by Youngblut and Felix Bauckholt, the man she was with at the time of the shooting of the Border Patrol agent, were bought by an individual who is a person of interest in a double homicide in Pennsylvania.
