Alt-right YouTuber stabs father to death in ‘Nazi’ row

A vocal Trump supporter and member of the so-called “alt-right” stabbed his father to death during an argument about his extreme beliefs.

Lane Davis, 33, an unemployed university dropout who once worked as an intern for alt-right poster boy Milo Yiannopoulos, is alleged to have chased 74-year-old Charles “Chuck” Davis around the home he shared with his parents on Samish Island, off the coast of Washington, before attacking him with a kitchen knife.

Using the name Seattle4Truth, Lane posted YouTube videos in which he peddled conspiracy theories about world government, fluoride in water supplies and “liberal elite” paedophile rings, the New York Daily News reports.

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In one video, he performs a “Trump rap” whose lyrics applaud the “death throes of globalism, rebirth of nationalism”.

He contributed political articles to fringe conservative blog The Ralph Retort and was a regular poster on Reddit’s Donald Trump subreddit, considered one of the online hubs of the alt-right. In his posts on the message board, he railed against Democrats, Muslims and mainstream media.

His political outbursts “had become so frequent that Charles had started recording the tirades on his phone,” says the Daily Beast.

On 14 July, Lane accused his parents of being “leftists” and “paedophiles”, while the older Davis is said to have called his son “racist” and a “Nazi”, according to court documents.

As the row escalated, Lane’s mother, Catherine, called 911 to ask for police intervention, telling a dispatcher that Lane was “chasing us around the house”, according to a transcript of the call.

“He thinks we’re leftist and he’s calling us pedophiles,” she told the dispatcher, adding: “he just lives on the internet and he gets really worked up about everything that’s going on”.

When Charles told his son that police were on their way to remove him from the house, Lane is accused of stabbing his father multiple times, saying: “My life is over”.

Charles was a maritime lawyer whose involvement in civic affairs in rural Skagit County earned him the nickname “Mr Samish Island”, the Skagit Valley Herald reports.

Details of the incident have become public recently through documents submitted to court ahead of Davis’ trial, which is scheduled to take place in January. He has pled not guilty to first-degree murder.