A timeline of activities of a cultlike group tied to the killing of a Border Patrol agent

Published February 16, 2025 By admin with Comments 0

Here’s a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. It is based on Associated Press interviews and a review of police reports, court records and online postings:

2016

Jack LaSota, who uses feminine pronouns, a computer programmer and transgender woman living in the San Francisco Bay area, starts writing a blog under the online persona “Ziz” with complex and sometimes rambling theories about technology, gender identity and human cognition. She gets involved in the rationalist movement, a community that seeks to understand human cognition and is concerned with the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.

2018

LaSota attends programs organized by rationalist groups but splits from them after they reject her theory that the two hemispheres of the brain can hold separate values and genders.

Content retrieved from: https://apnews.com/article/vermont-border-patrol-shooting-youngblut-lasota-zizians-8d3522fae8338cabf9f890aab054c0b4.