Wisconsin teen will spend life behind bars after plotting to kill Trump

Casap pleaded guilty in January to two counts of first-degree intentional homicide in Waukesha County Circuit Court in connection with the 2025 shooting deaths of his mother, Tatiana Casap, and stepfather, Donald Mayer.

As part of the plea deal, prosecutors dropped seven other charges, including two counts of concealing a corpse and theft.

Casap shot his parents in early February. The 18-year-old then lived with their decomposing bodies for two weeks before fleeing across the country in his stepfather’s SUV, along with $14,000 in cash, his stepfather’s gun and the family dog.

He was eventually arrested during a traffic stop in Kansas on February 28. Casap reportedly had plans to use an “attack drone” that would drop a makeshift “bomb” full of nuts, bolts and needles on the president.

A federal warrant for his arrest concluded, “The murder of his parents appeared to be an attempt to obtain the financial resources and autonomy necessary to carry out his plan.”

Before handing down his sentence, Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Ralph Ramirez rejected an argument from Casap’s attorney that he should be given a chance for extended supervision after 20 years.

Ramirez explained that he took Casap’s age into account when deciding his fate, but told the court that the “bizarre circumstances” of the killings, including living with the bodies afterward, shocked him.

“I can’t understand it, I don’t know if anyone can understand or put any reasoning behind what happened,” Ramirez said, adding, “I’m not immune to the fact that I have a very young man here, and whatever decision I make is going to affect that young man for the rest of his life.”

However, the judge ruled: “I choose to determine that he is not eligible for release on extended supervision because, given the nature of these acts, I do not know whether any profound and significant change can occur.”

Casap was given one last chance to address the court, where he tried to explain his motives.

“I felt like the world was a sick and bad place, and my actions to change it were justified,” he said, fighting back tears. ‘I thought I was part of a revolution. Part of a war.

“I said to myself, ‘Bad things have happened in war.’ I wish I had at least questioned the extremists I listened to.”

He also expressed how much he loved his mother and stepfather through sobs. He remembered walking around the neighborhood with her and playing basketball with his stepfather.

“This was the mother I killed. The person I killed. The person who loved me no matter what. The mother who always took care of me,” he said emotionally. “I miss talking to her. I miss my mother.

“I would much rather be with her and my stepfather now in heaven than be on earth after doing what I did.”

“What I did was mean. What I did was thoughtless. What I did was wrong,” the teen added.