Teen with perfect school attendance stopped showing up to school leading to cops finding his slain mom and stepdad

A Wisconsin teenager who never missed school suddenly stopped showing up — leading police to discover his mom and stepdad murdered at home, and the boy to be arrested while driving in another state with a gun, according to authorities.Nikita Casap’s two-week absence from Waukesha West High School — as well as “weird or suspicious” text messages sent from his stepdad’s phone — prompted a police welfare check at the family’s Waukesha home on Feb.28.There, cops found the 17-year-old’s mom, identified by WISN as Tatiana Casap, buried under clothes with a bullet wound in her shoulder — and her face “blackened from decomposition with dried blood on the floor around her,” according to a criminal complaint.Her husband, identified by relatives as Donald Mayer, was also found under clothing — with “an obvious wound to the back of [his] head,” according to a criminal complaint.Nikita was arrested the same day during a traffic stop in Wakeeney, Kansas — some 850 miles away — while driving his stepdad’s VW Atlas with the family dog inside, the complaint said.“Officers observed in plain view a gun on the passenger side floorboard that was later determined to be a Smith and Wesson .357 Magnum firearm,” the complaint said, matching a gun his stepdad recently bought.“Further, officers located [the dead parents’} drivers licenses, unused ammunition for the .357 Magnum and spent shell casings.”The teen — who does not have a license to drive — was charged with one count of theft and one count of operating a motor vehicle without the owner’s consent.

He faces a maximum prison sentence of six years if convicted.He has not been charged in connection with his parent’s deaths, which remains an “ongoing and active” investigation, police said.The alarm was raised in part because the teen had had a “perfect” attendance before the sudden unexcused absences — and nobody was able to get in touch with his family to find out why tha...