Madison, Wisconsin.. A man from Wisconsin Accused of killing his parents Their money was stolen to fund a plan to assassinate President Donald Trump. They are scheduled to enter a plea deal to resolve the case on Thursday.
Nikita Kasap, 18, is expected to agree to the deal during a morning hearing in Waukesha County Circuit Court in suburban Milwaukee. He goes to the hearing facing multiple charges, including two counts of murder, two counts of concealing a body and robbery, and the trial is scheduled to begin on March 2.
Online court records did not list the terms of the plea agreement. Harm Veenhuizen, a spokesman for the state attorney general’s office, which represents Kasap, said the state Supreme Court’s ethics rules prohibit the office from commenting on cases. The Waukesha County District Attorney’s Office did not respond to questions about the deal.
According to a criminal complaint, investigators believe Kassab shot his mother, Tatiana Kassab, and his stepfather, Donald Meyer, at their Waukesha Village home on or about Feb. 11.
He lived with the decomposing bodies for weeks before fleeing across the country in his stepfather’s SUV with $14,000 in cash, jewelry, passports, his stepfather’s gun and the family dog, according to the complaint. He was eventually arrested during a traffic stop in Kansas on February 28.
Federal authorities accused Kasap of planning to kill his parents, purchasing a drone and explosives and sharing his plans with others, including a Russian speaker. They said in a federal search warrant that he wrote a statement calling for Trump’s assassination and was in contact with others about his plan to kill Trump and overthrow the US government.
“It appears that killing his parents was an attempt to obtain the financial means and independence necessary to carry out his plan,” the arrest warrant said.
Investigators found several messages on Kassab’s cellphone dating back to January 2025 asking Kassab how long he would have to hide before he was transferred to Ukraine. The complaint said an unidentified person responded in Russian, but the document does not say what that person said to Kazab. In another message, Kasap asks: “So, while I am in Ukraine, I will be able to live a normal life? Even if it is discovered that I did this?”