Justin D. Mohn: Trial to start for Pennsylvania man charged with decapitating father and posting gory video | EUROtoday

A Pennsylvania man accused of killing his father and posting a video of his severed head on-line is ready to face trial Monday.

Justin D. Mohn, 33, faces fees of homicide, abuse of a corpse, terrorism-related crimes and different offenses for the 2024 killing of Michael F. Mohn on the Levittown house the place the pair lived with the defendant’s mom.

She discovered her husband’s physique in a toilet.

Prosecutors have mentioned Justin Mohn shot his father with a newly bought pistol, then decapitated him with a kitchen knife and machete.

The 14-minute YouTube video was reside for a number of hours earlier than it was eliminated.

Mohn was armed with a handgun when arrested later that day after allegedly climbing a 20-foot (6-meter) fence at Fort Indiantown Gap, the state’s National Guard headquarters.

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He had hoped to get the troopers to “mobilize the Pennsylvania National Guard to raise arms against the federal government,” Bucks County District Attorney Jennifer Schorn mentioned at a information convention in 2024.

Mohn had a USB gadget containing photographs of federal buildings and obvious directions for making explosives when arrested, authorities have mentioned.

He additionally had expressed violent anti-government rhetoric in writings he revealed on-line, and the YouTube video included rants in regards to the authorities, immigration and the border, fiscal coverage, city crime and the battle in Ukraine.

Mohn’s protection legal professional, Steven M. Jones, mentioned final week he didn’t anticipate the case being resolved with a plea deal.

Michael Mohn, who was 68, had been an engineer with the geoenvironmental part of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In the video, Justin Mohn described his father as a 20-year federal worker and referred to as him a traitor.

During a competency listening to in 2024, a protection knowledgeable mentioned Mohn wrote a letter to Russia’s ambassador to the United States searching for a deal to provide Mohn refuge and apologizing to President Vladimir Putin for claiming to be the czar of Russia.