Man Accused Of Beheading His Father In Suburban Philadelphia Home And Posting Gruesome Video Online

Man Accused Of Beheading His Father In Suburban Philadelphia Home And Posting Gruesome Video Online

Levittown, Pennsylvania. (AP) - A suburban Philadelphia father accused of posting a gruesome video of his throat being slashed and his severed head held aloft on social media has been charged with first-degree murder. Wednesday.

Justin Mohn was armed and scaled the fence of a National Guard facility about 100 miles (161 kilometers) away when he was arrested late Tuesday, hours after the killing, a guard spokesman said.

The father, identified as Michael Moh, was found slashed in the bathroom of his Levittown home, where his 32-year-old son also lived, according to court documents. Justin Mohn was arrested at Fort Indiantown Gap, police said.

Michael Mohn's wife, Denise Mohn, arrived home and found the body around 7 p.m. Tuesday, police said. Police found Mo's body, a machete and bloody rubber gloves, police said. Denise Mohn told police that her husband and son's white Toyota Corolla was missing.

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In the more than 14-minute YouTube video, Justin Mohn picks up his father's severed head and identifies it by name, police said. Police said Mohn was reading from a script when he complained to the government.

YouTube said in a statement that the non-downloadable and live-streamed video was removed for violating its violence policy and Mohn's channel was closed.

A few years ago, Monn engaged in violent anti-government rhetoric in his online posts. In August 2020, Mon published an online "leaflet" in which he tried to argue that those born in 1991 or later should lead what he called a "bloody revolution". He also lamented the long lost cause and encouraged the murders of family members and government officials.

In a video released after the murder, she described her father as a 20-year-old federal employee and called him a traitor to his country. He has embraced various conspiracy theories and rumors about the Biden administration, immigration and the border, tax policy, urban crime, and the war in Ukraine.

Mohn drove his father's car to Fort Indiantown Gap, where he was arrested, said Capt. Pete Feeney of the Middletown Police Department.

According to Angela Watson, director of communications for the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, Fort Indiantown Gap officials were notified Tuesday afternoon that Moon's cell phone was ringing in the area.

A car is parked in the driveway of a home where a homicide occurred on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024, in Levittown. A man has been charged with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse after the death of his father. they found it cut. Police are investigating a video of him holding his head that went viral on social media. The father was found hacked to death in the bathroom of his Levittown home Tuesday afternoon.

Investigators caught Moh on foot after he jumped a fence at a National Guard base. Watson said he had a gun when he was arrested. He said he was never a member of the Pennsylvania National Guard.

The house where the body was found is in the building of private residential houses in the suburbs. No one answered the door early Wednesday morning.

Neighbors walking their dogs Wednesday morning described Justin Mohn as a regular walker and described him as eccentric.

Bart DeHaven said he has called the police several times since the summer after watching Justin Mohn sitting on a deck in the park across from his house.

"It's just sad," DeHaven said. "He should have asked for help."

Kerry McCarthy said she often saw him walking and sitting in a wooded area in the neighborhood. He said someone sent him a video on YouTube that shocked him.

"I screamed. I absolutely screamed," she said. "I opened the video and I was like, 'Oh my God, this is a guy I see every day and I knew there was something about him.'

A man who shared an apartment with Mohn in Colorado Springs, Colo., ten years ago remembers Mohn talking at length about conspiracy theories. Davis said Rebhan left shortly after the moon became unstable overnight and damaged walls and other objects.

Rebhan said that during the year they lived together, Moni's only visitor was her father who came on weekends.

"I didn't take anything from this trip that made me think that would be the case," Rebhan said. "There was nothing that told me that Justin wasn't thinking about his dad. And it was very clear that his dad cared about him, because it was clear that he had these issues, and his dad continued to travel the country. stay. with him."

Mohn, who was also arrested on weapons charges, was arraigned Wednesday morning and is being held without bail. His trial is set for February 8. A spokeswoman for the Bucks County Prosecutor's Office said Wednesday that he did not expect to make a public statement about the case.

Moon's attorney was not available in court filings Wednesday morning, and a message was left on his behalf on a phone listing seeking comment. The District Court said that there was no record of the lawyer defending him.

AP reporters Michael Rubinkam in northeastern Pennsylvania, Claudia Lauer in Philadelphia and Mark Scolforo in Harrisburg.

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