PITTSBURG, NH - In yet another case of violence carried out by a gender-confused individual, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) reports that a Customs and Border Patrol agent was shot at near the US-Canadian border in New Hampshire on February 21.
According to a Department of Justice (DOJ) press release, “Blu Zeke Daly,” whose birth name is “Cullan Zeke Daly,” has been charged with attempted murder in connection with the incident that took place at the Pittsburg port of entry. Authorities are investigating whether this incident is somehow tied to the killing of Border Patrol agent David Maaland during a highway shootout in upstate Vermont on January 20, 2025. Investigators are also trying to ascertain if both incidents are somehow tied to a rash of killings tied to a transgender cult. The killing of Maaland was confirmed as being tied to that group. Law Enforcement Today reported on those ties.
Daly has been charged with one count of attempted murder of a federal officer and one count of assaulting a federal officer with a deadly weapon, according to National Review. Authorities believe that Daly’s transgender identity, the location of the shooting, and the target make it possible that the Vermont shooting last year and last week’s incident in New Hampshire are connected.
“When you have something happen which targets a Border Patrol agent in that area, it would be a reasonable line of investigative inquiry to determine whether there is any connection to a broader network or group, because that does appear to exist, the allegations that did exist in the murder investigation involving the Border Patrol agent,” U.S. Attorney Erin Creegan said.
“It was incredibly close, and we are very, very lucky that there was not an event like the one that happened in Vermont, that we are sitting here today with a Border Patrol agent that is unharmed,” Creegan continued. “That is a miracle.”
“This individual did have a previous Massachusetts driver’s license that was denominated to be male, and now he has a New Hampshire driver’s license, which is denominated to be female,” Creegan said. “So it’s a reasonable assumption that the person has decided to transition their gender.”
That seems to be an accurate assessment, with court documents obtained by WMUR in Manchester, New Hampshire, revealing that in 2024, Daly was granted a name change, claiming nonbinary identification as the impetus for the switch.
In the New Hampshire case, Daly was driving alone in a 2012 Honda Civic and stopped by a Border Patrol agent at 11:30 p.m. on February 21 in Stewartstown, New Hampshire. Daly produced a New Hampshire driver’s license with a Manchester, N.H., address. Manchester is approximately 3 hours south of where Daly was stopped. After the agent asked Daly if he “had used any other names,” Daly drove off with the agent following, according to an affidavit completed by FBI Agent Paul Mullen.
Shortly after midnight, Daly arrived at the Pittsburg point of entry; however, it closed at 8:00 p.m. and was locked. At that point, the agent activated his overhead lights, and Daly attempted to turn around and drive away. In the process of doing so, Daly opened fire on the agent, causing him to return fire. Daly was struck, lost control of the vehicle, and drove into a snowbank. The last report was that Daly was hospitalized with unknown injuries.
A search of Daly’s car found a handgun and “assorted ammunition.” A bullet was found in the agent’s vehicle, the affidavit said.
The proximity and the persons targeted led investigators to examine whether this incident is connected to the murder of Maaland.
In that case, Maaland stopped a car on Interstate 91 between the Vermont towns of Newport and Orleans, approximately 20 miles south of the Canadian border.
The FBI reported at the time: “During the course of the traffic stop, an exchange of gunfire occurred, and Agent Maaland was struck. Additionally, one suspect was killed, and one subject was injured and is currently being treated at an area hospital.”
The deceased driver was identified as Ophelia Bauckholt, also known as “Felix Bauckholt,” a German national who overstayed an H-1B non-immigrant visa. NBC News reported that Bauckholt “transitioned to female after college.”
The passenger in Bauckholt’s vehicle, Teresa Youngblut of Seattle, Washington, was indicted last August in Vermont in connection with Maaland’s murder.
According to a DOJ press release, she and Bauckholt “were armed” and that “Youngblut exited the vehicle, and, without warning, opened fire,” killing Maaland.
As noted in our previous reporting, Bauckholt and Youngblut are believed to be connected to a string of murders tied to the “Zizian” cult, a group described as a “radical leftist transgender vegan cult.”
The “Zizians” are well-educated transgender vegan “rationalists” who hold “fringe, esoteric ideological beliefs about transhumanism and animal rights.” Our reporting found that the firearms used in Maaland’s murder were connected by investigators with a person of interest in other murders and tied to the cult’s leader, Jack “Ziz” LaSota. A Philadelphia ABC affiliate reported 10 days after Maaland’s murder that the gun used in the agent’s killing “was purchased by a person of interest” in a Philadelphia area murder.
That person of interest, Michelle Jacqueline Zajko, is a trans nonbinary and is a suspect in the murder of his parents, Rita and Richard Zajko, in Pennsylvania.
On New Year’s Eve 2022, Richard Zajko and his wife Rita were shot in the head and killed at their home in Chester Heights, Pennsylvania.
The ABC report continued:
“Jack Lasota [Ziz] is currently facing charges of obstructing law enforcement and disorderly conduct in Pennsylvania. Authorities won’t say whether those charges are related to the Zajko deaths. Still, court records show that police were searching for a gun used in two killings when they arrested LaSota 12 days later at a hotel about 10 miles from the scene of the killings.’
“Ziz” published a blog that, according to the Associated Press, was replete with “complex and sometimes rambling theories about technology, gender identity, and human cognition,” which apparently stems from his involvement with the “rationalist movement, a community that seeks to understand human cognition and is concerned with the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.”
The cult is tied to several other murders, including in November 2022, when Ziz, Emma Borhanian, and Alexander Leatham, among others, had been previously evicted from a property by Curtis Lind. Per the AP, “two days before the eviction deadline,” Lind was “impaled with a sword and partially blinded in an attack during which he” shot and killed Borhanian. Prosecutors found he acted in self-defense.
Three days before Agent Maaland was killed in Vermont, Lind was stabbed to death in Vallejo, California. Accused of that murder was a “Maximilian Snyder,” who had allegedly applied for a license to marry Youngblut, the passenger in the vehicle stopped by Maaland, two months earlier in Washington State.
In February 2025, Lasota, the Zajkos’ daughter, Michelle, and a “Daniel Blank” were arrested in Maryland after police received a complaint that all three of them had been living in two white box trucks on his land in the rural town of Frostburg.
Are all these murders and arrests merely coincidental, or is there something much more sinister afoot? It seems like the latter may be the case.
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