A Seattle-area man has been arrested and charged with murder in Northern California, in a case that appears to be connected to the Seattle woman charged in the killing of a Border Patrol agent in Vermont.
Maximilian Snyder, 22, was arrested just after midnight Friday morning in Redding, Calif., according to jail records. He has been charged with murder in Solano County Superior Court, according to court documents, with an arraignment scheduled for Tuesday. He is being held without bail.
Snyder and Teresa Youngblut, 21, of Seattle, were high school classmates who applied for a marriage license in King County in November. The application listed a Kirkland address.
Youngblut is currently in jail in Vermont, facing two weapons charges in connection with a shootout that killed a Border Patrol agent in a rural Vermont town near the Canadian border last week.
Federal prosecutors in Youngblut’s case wrote in court filings that she has been in frequent contact with a person of interest in a homicide in Vallejo, Calif. Snyder was arrested by the Vallejo Police Department.
The person of interest in the Vallejo homicide, federal prosecutors wrote, was also detained in a double homicide investigation in Pennsylvania.
Both Youngblut and Snyder attended Lakeside School, an elite private school in North Seattle, famously where Bill Gates and Paul Allen met.
Snyder graduated in 2020 and Youngblut in 2022.
After graduating from Lakeside, Snyder attended Oxford where he studied computer science and philosophy, according to four former classmates and his LinkedIn profile. Youngblut went to the University of Washington, social media profiles show.
No one answered the door last week at the Kirkland address that Youngblut and Snyder listed on their marriage license application. Neighbors said a couple had moved in within the last few months, but that they didn’t know them.
Open Vallejo, a local news site in the Bay Area city, reported that Snyder is being charged with the killing of Curtis Lind, an 82-year-old man who was stabbed to death on Jan. 17 outside his home in Vallejo.
Lind was also stabbed in 2022 and was set to testify against his alleged attackers in an upcoming trial, according to Open Vallejo.
Vallejo police and the Solano County prosecutor’s office did not return requests for comment.
A GoFundMe page set up for Lind’s family says he was attacked in 2022 by three young people who were staying on his property. He was impaled in the chest with a sword, according to news reports, and he lost an eye but survived.
Youngblut’s parents reported her missing last year, telling Seattle police they were fearful she was in a controlling relationship and was being forced to cut off contact with her friends and family.
Snyder’s mother did not return messages left at phone numbers associated with her.
Federal investigators have accused Youngblut of firing without warning at Border Patrol agents during a traffic stop on Interstate 91 in Coventry, Vt., last week. At least one of the agents fired back, according to a probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Vermont.
David “Chris” Maland, a 44-year-old Border Patrol agent, died in the shootout.
Court documents filed Monday in federal court in Vermont accuse her of using “deadly violence without provocation.”