Man ‘beheads his father’ then calls for revolution against Biden
A MAN has been charged with first degree murder for allegedly beheading his father and then posting a gruesome Youtube video calling for a revolution.
Justin Mohn was armed when he was arrested 100 miles from where his father, Michael, was found in the bathroom of his home in Levittown.
Police said Michael Mohn’s wife, Denice Mohn, arrived home and found the body about 7pm on Tuesday.
Next to Mr Mohn’s body, officers found a machete and bloody rubber gloves, according to a police affidavit. Mrs Mohn told officers that her husband’s white Toyota Corolla and her son were missing.
Police said the Youtube video, which was more than 14 minutes long, showed Justin Mohn picking up his father’s decapitated head and identifying him by name. It appeared he was reading from a script as he railed about the government, the Black Lives Matter movement and migrants, the police added.
In a statement, Youtube said the video, which was uploaded and not livestreamed, was removed for violating its graphic violence policy and Mr Mohn’s channel was shut down.
Mr Mohn embraced violent anti-government rhetoric in writings he published online going back several years. In August 2020, he published an online “pamphlet” in which he tried to make the case that people born in or after 1991 – his birth year – should carry out what he termed a “bloody revolution.” He also encouraged assassinations of family members and public officials.
In the video posted after the killing, he described his father as a 20-year federal employee and called him a traitor to his country.
He also espoused a variety of conspiracy theories and rants about the Biden government, immigration and the border, fiscal policy, urban crime and the war in Ukraine. After the alleged attack, Mr Mohn then drove his father’s car to Fort Indiantown Gap, where he was taken into custody, Capt. Pete Feeney of the Middletown Township Police Department said.
Officials at Fort Indiantown Gap were told that Mr Mohn’s mobile phone had pinged nearby, according to Angela Watson, communications director for the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Investigators caught up with Mr Mohn inside the National Guard base, where he was walking after having apparently jumped the fence. He had a gun when he was caught, Ms Watson said.
The house where the body was found is in a suburban neighbourhood of single-family homes. Bart Dehaven, a neighbour, said he called police a handful of times since the summer after Justin Mohn sat on a raised manhole cover in a park directly across the street from his home and stared at his house. “It’s just sad,” Mr Dehaven said. Carrie Mccarthy said she saw him walking frequently and sitting in the wooded area in the neighbourhood. She said someone sent her the Youtube video, which left her stunned. “I screamed. I totally screamed,” she said. “I opened the video and I was like, ‘Oh my God, that’s they guy I see every day.’”
Mr Mohn, who also was arrested on a weapons possession charge, was arraigned early yesterday and held without bail.
He is scheduled for a hearing on Feb 8.
A spokesperson for the Bucks County district attorney’s office said they did not expect to comment publicly about the case.
An attorney for Mr Mohn wasn’t listed in court records Wednesday morning and a message seeking comment on his behalf was left at a phone listing for him. The district court office said it had no record of a lawyer representing him.