In a sobering tale of a family tragedy, Waukesha County prosecutors have brought forth charges against 17-year-old Nikita Casap for the deaths of his mother and stepfather in their Village of Waukesha home, as per reports from WISN. The charges laid on Casap include two counts each of first-degree intentional homicide and hiding a corpse, among other criminal offenses.
According to the criminal complaint obtained by TMJ4, beyond the grisly allegations of murder, Casap faces accusations related to theft, unauthorized vehicle use, and identity theft for financial gain; this expansion of charges reveals a grim scenario wherein financial motives may have played a role, and with such speculations, the true extent of this familial dissolution continues to cast a pall over the Waukesha community.
Details surrounding the circumstances of this horrific incident emerged when Casap was investigated for separate charges earlier in the month—Waukesha County District Attorney Lesli Boese provided unsettling testimony. "The stepfather was shot in the back of the head, and the mother had three gunshot wounds, one close up to the neck and then two others that were non-fatal," Boese described during a prior hearing, as stated by WISN. Boese revealed that the teen lived in the residence with the deceased until February 23rd.
The unsettling discovery of the bodies was made on February 28 after Judith Mayer, the teen's stepgrandmother in Massachusetts, reported not hearing from the couple for weeks which led her to contact the Wisconsin police, providing them with house codes and addresses which initiated the welfare check, according to an interview Judith Mayer told WISN; deputies responding to the scene found Casap's mother in a hallway obscured under blankets and a towel while Mayer was located in a first-floor office.
Local high school attendance records from FOX6Now indicate that Casap had not attended Waukesha West High School for two weeks leading up to the grim discovery, a detail that adds to the chilling narrative pieced together by law enforcement as they work to understand the events that culminated in such a tragic family ordeal.
