Trans 'Zizian' cult suspect dragged from court after shouting allegations of de-transition, murder: report

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. 

The 29-year-old reportedly went on a profanity-laden rant in the courtroom Tuesday, accusing authorities of attempting to de-transition her.

"The court has been hormonally detransitioning me for quarter of a decade as part of a state-sponsored conversion therapy program," she said, according to SFGate. "I am not suicidal. I have never been suicidal."

"If I am killed in police custody, it was murder!" Leatham said.

Judge John B. Ellis ordered Leatham to be taken to an isolation room prior to the hearing, saying that she could appear via camera due to her behavior, SFGate reported.

"If defendant Leatham can't behave herself, she can be moved to the isolation booth," Ellis said.  

Members of the Zizians have been charged or named as persons of interest in connection with six deaths across the country, including the stabbing of an 82-year-old landlord in January, the shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Vermont in January and the 2022 double homicide of an elderly Pennsylvania couple. 

Leatham and Suri Dao face attempted murder charges after a rent dispute with landlord Curtis Lind that ended with Zizian follower Emma Borhanian being fatally shot by Lind in self-defense. Lind was injured by a samurai sword during the altercation.

"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.

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."

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.