A conspiracist son who allegedly beheaded his own father and showed the head on a YouTube has been found competent to stand trial.
Justin Mohn, 32, is accused cutting of his Michael Francis Mohn's head before going on to create a chilling 14-minute video on YouTube handling his father's severed head, which was wrapped in a plastic bag and placed in a metal bucket.
In a lengthy monologue recorded in the video , Mohn called for the targeted killing of federal workers, noting that his father, a long-time employee of the Army Corps of Engineers, was part of this group.
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The Bucks County District Attorney's office also revealed that Mohn identified specific federal personnel as targets for capture and public execution, and even disclosed the identity and location of a US District Court Judge.
The county prosecutor said that before beheading his dad, Justin shot him in the head with a gun he got just the day before. Then he drove for about two hours to where the Pennsylvania National Guard trains, where he was found and arrested.
The defense expert, Dr. John Markey, testified that Mohn suffered from a delusional disorder. Mohn, who claimed he was the Messiah, reportedly made various animated facial expressions as he sat in court in a yellow jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him. After a five-hour court hearing Mohn was deemed competent to stand trial.
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The accused killer claimed he was a messiah and a King David-like figure whom the federal government was persecuting for his public rantings against migrants, the Biden administration, the LBGTQ community, Black Lives Matter, and “far-left woke mobs.”
An autopsy showed that Michael Mohn had been shot in the head before he was decapitated with a knife and machete, she said. Justin Mohn embraced violent anti-government rhetoric in writings he published online going back several years.
He never was committed for mental illness and he bought the 9mm handgun legally, Schorn said. He even gave up his medical marijuana card before buying the gun so he could get it. "It was evident to us that he was of clear mind in his purpose and what he was doing, aside from what his beliefs are," Schorn said.
The prosecutor said that Mohn went to Fort Indiantown Gap hoping "to mobilise the Pennsylvania National Guard to raise arms against the federal government."
The FBI's National Threat Operations Center got four warnings about “concerning” posts by Mohn on social media from 2018 to 2023, the bureau shared.The FBI looked into each tip and found no evidence of anything illegal happening, and didn’t find Mohn to be an imminent threat.
The agency explained: "As there was no evidence of any ongoing illegal activities or indications of an imminent threat, it was determined that no further action could be taken."
Justin Mohn's mom found her husband's body in their Levittown home where the three lived together and went to a neighbour’s house to ask them to call police, Schorn said.
Justin Mohn's video, which YouTube removed after a few hours, had him ranting against the government, something he also wrote about online.
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