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A man accused of beheading his father and posting a disturbing video online showing the severed head broke inside a military facility to “try and mobilise the National Guard” before he was arrested, federal authorities have revealed.
Justin Mohn, 32, is facing charges of first-degree murder and abusing a corpse after he allegedly shot and beheaded his 68-year-old father Michael Mohn and publicized it in a 14-minute YouTube video. The victim’s corpse and head, which was wrapped in plastic, were found by his wife and the suspect’s mother in the bathroom of their home in Bucks County‘s Middletown Township on Tuesday night.
Mr Mohn was arrested at a military facility in Fort Indiantown Gap, about 100 miles away from the crime scene, shortly after his mother made the gruesome discovery and ran to a neighbour’s house to phone police, officials with the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office and the FBI revealed on Friday.
According to authorities, Mr Mohn drove to the facility in an attempt to mobilise the National Guard to raise arms and overthrow the federal government.
The video reportedly showed Mr Mohn ranting about the government and giving out instructions to “kill federal employees,” including IRS, FBI, courthouse, Border Patrol and US Marshals staff. Mr Mohn then said that federal employees should be “tortured for information” and assassinated, police said.
He also said his father, a 20-year federal employee, was “going to hell” for being a traitor to America. Police said it appeared Mohn was reading from a script as he railed about the government.
Michael Mohn’s wife, Denice Mohn, arrived home and found the body about 7 pm Tuesday. Responding officers found Mohn’s body in the first-floor bathroom and his head inside a plastic bag in a kitchen pot placed in a first-floor bedroom, according to a police affidavit.
Officers said they found bloody rubber gloves in a bedroom on the second floor. Denice Mohn said her husband’s white Toyota Corolla and her son were both missing.
Mr Mohn was driving his father’s car when police took him into custody without incident.
Mohn, who also was arrested on a weapons possession charge, was arraigned early Wednesday and held without bail.
He is scheduled for a hearing on 8 February.
This is a developing story … check again for updates.
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