A suspected member of the radical “Zizian” cult was forcibly removed from a California courtroom after claiming an officer said she should be killed for being transgender.

Alexander “Somni” Leatham, a 29-year-old trans woman from Agoura Hills, California, was one of five alleged members of the group of radical vegans, many of whom identified as trans, who were in Solano Superior Court Tuesday. 

Leatham alleged that an officer told her she “deserved to be shot for being transgender while he had a gun, and I was in chains,” according to SFGate. Leatham, and others in the group, face charges in connection with a string of killings across the country that culminated in the January killing of a U.S. Border Patrol agent along the northern border. 

Read more of Fox News Digital coverage on the Zizians here.

The group lived in a cluster of trailer trucks, McMillan told the Chronicle. Initially, they paid rent but stopped paying during the pandemic.

“He had an agreement that they were going to fix up their vehicles, and then they were going to leave,” Lind’s daughter, Dina Morrill, told the newspaper.

“The truth is, they jumped him,” Lind’s son, Carl Lind, told KTVU.

This combination of images from top left shows the 2019 Sonoma County Sheriff’s office booking mugshots of Jack LaSota, Alexander Leatham, Emma Borhanian and, at bottom left, Gwen Danielson, a court appearance of Maximilian Snyder and a Newport City Inn surveillance video image of Teresa Youngblut. They are associates of LaSota, also known as “Ziz.” (Associated Press)

Lind managed to shoot two of his alleged attackers, killing one of them, Borhanian. Prosecutors concluded that the landlord acted in self-defense. 

“After they attacked him, he got his gun out and shot two of them, killed one of them,” McMillan told the Chronicle. “The other one had three shots to the chest.”

The landlord was left seriously injured after the group attacked him with a samurai sword. McMillan told KTVU that he had the sword “stuck through his back with about a foot of it sticking out in front.”

Lind survived the initial attack but was then stabbed to death in a second attack on Jan. 17, 2025. Maximilian Snyder, 22, another “Ziz” member, was arrested and charged with his murder, according to court records obtained by FOX 13 Seattle.

The next hearing is set for April 22 at 9 a.m. Fox News Digital reached out to Leatham’s attorney.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.