Accused Murder Suspect and Zizian Cult Member Accuses Jailers of ‘Detransitioning’ Her In Court Outburst
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One of the suspected cult members who is set to stand trial for the attempted murder of Curtis Lind and the murder of fellow Zizian Emma Borhanian in 2022, Alexander “Somni” Leatham, had another outburst in a court appearance Tuesday.
The January murder of Vallejo resident Curtis Lind brought to light the small but seemingly very violent Bay Area cult, the Zizians, and a path of destruction that allegedly led to the deaths of six people to date in four separate incidents across the country. And Lind’s murder appears to be linked to his testimony in an earlier attempt on his life by three of the alleged cult members on his Vallejo property in November 2022.
Two of those suspects from the 2022 incident, Somni Leatham and Suri Dao, are still set to stand trial, and made a court appearance Tuesday morning in Solano County Superior Court in Fairfield. As SFGate reports from the courtroom, Leatham once again proved disruptive, having previously been handcuffed to a wheelchair for court appearances due to her earlier outbursts and at least one escape attempt.
The wheelchair and handcuffs were used again, and Leatham reportedly immediately began screaming upon being wheeled into the courtroom. In front of Judge John B. Ellis, per SFGate, Leatham repeated that a Solano County jail officer had told her she “deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun and I was in chains.”
Leatham also said, “The court has been hormonally detransitioning me for quarter of a decade as part of a state-sponsored conversion therapy program. I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal.”
Content retrieved from: https://sfist.com/2025/04/08/accused-murder-suspect-and-zizian-cult-member-accuses-jailers-of-detransitioning-her-in-court-outburst/.
