Why Have Authorities Linked the Zizians to 6 Deaths?
Borhanian, who was still facing charges related to the protest, was shot and killed in November 2022.
Curtis Lind had rented a trailer to LaSota and several others on a lot he owned in Vallejo, Calif., back in 2017. The landlord said, per Solano County prosecutors, that he didn’t have any problems to speak of with his tenants until the pandemic hit in 2020 and they stopped paying rent.
After Lind started eviction proceedings in 2022, as alleged in a prosecution motion to consolidate informations filed in December and reviewed by E! News, tenants Borhanian and Alexander Leatham threatened him with a knife, so he started carrying a gun around the property.
On the morning of Nov. 13, 2022, two days before the tenants were to be evicted, the filing continued, tenant Suri Dao told Lind there was a water leak on the property. When he went to investigate, the filing alleges, Borhanian, Leatham and Dao started stabbing him with knives, and Leatham impaled him with a samurai sword. During the attack he pulled his gun and shot at his attackers, fatally wounding Borhanian.
Solano County prosecutors charged Leatham and Dao with attempted murder and aggravated mayhem for the attack on Lind, who was blinded in one eye, as well as murder for Borhanian’s death, alleging that they were responsible while Lind was acting in self-defense.
