Man charged with beheading father carried photos of federal buildings, bomb plans, DA says

The suburban Philadelphia man charged with decapitating his father and posting a video online in which he held up the severed head had a device with photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions for making explosives when he was arrested, authorities said Thursday.

Justin Mohn, 32, faces a dozen new charges, including terrorism and theft, in the death last month of his father Michael Mohn, the Bucks County District Attorney’s office said Thursday.

A woman who answered the phone at the Bucks County Public Defender’s office, listed as Mohn’s attorney, declined to comment on Thursday.

According to prosecutors, Justin Mohn fatally shot his father with a pistol he bought the day before and then used a kitchen knife and machete to decapitate Michael Mohn at the Levittown house where they both lived.

JustZ,

Totally normal Trump supporter.

Guy will probably be the keynote at CPAC.

BonesOfTheMoon, (edited )

One thing that I hope eventually happens as conservatives become more delirious is that the children of these parents are apprehended by CAS and taken away. As someone who has a big interest in extremists and spends a lot of time in their spheres, I can say without a doubt that most of them are very dangerous for their children. They are unvaccinated, uneducated (they literally prop them up in front of conspiracy theory YouTube all day under the guise of homeschool), malnourished, unregistered in any legal sense much of the time, and don’t socialize with others, as well as being physically disciplined. The guy who killed his kids in Mexico for Qanon reasons illustrates how dangerous these people are to children, as well as the guy who killed his kid for almost being vaccinated (this is much less well known and heartbreaking: longreads.com/…/a-vaccine-dispute-turns-deadly/)

phoenixz,

Sorry, source on that guy in Mexico? Haven’t heard about it

BonesOfTheMoon,

This is a good in depth piece about it; rollingstone.com/…/matthew-taylor-coleman-qanon-c…

phoenixz,

An apparent non paywall link: vice.com/…/matthew-taylor-coleman-santa-barbara-q…

lemon_space,

It happened in 2021.

A California father took his two young children to Mexico and killed them with a spearfishing gun after he claimed he had been “enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories,” federal authorities say.

According to a criminal complaint filed in federal court in California, Matthew Taylor Coleman reportedly told investigators he had been “receiving visions and signs revealing that his wife possessed serpent DNA and had passed it onto his children” and that by killing them he was “saving the world from monsters.”

NPR Source

Meowoem,

Yeah it’s frightening that there’s literally a cult developing of home schooled zealots brought up on the wackiest conspiracies on YouTube. I was friends with a guy that was brought up by intese Jehovah’s witnesses and even though he stopped participating and believing it took a long time for him to understand the stuff they’d taught him was crazy - like he was shocked that I believed in evolution because as far as he knew it was long since disproven.

The real problem was critical reasoning skills and learning skills, he had no idea how to verify information or seek out out from reasonable sources. I think we’re going to get a lot of people in the same boat, except a lot more violent and terrified of the world.

shalafi,

I have a hatred of right-wing stochastic terrorism most of you would not believe. My loathing borders on, and may be well past… healthy.

This is not that.

This guy is/was clearly suffering a psychotic break. No idea what the diagnosis will end up being, but right-wing media is merely the thing he latched onto. He would have latched onto another thing if not that.

PoliticalAgitator,

I don’t care what he would have done in some alternative universe. In this universe, he latched on to right wing media, murdered someone and then proudly displayed their severed head in triumph.

Donjuanme,

Yup, perfectly responsible gun owner who purchased a perfectly legal gun a perfectly reasonable time before using it. No way a background check could’ve stopped this, so let’s not bother pushing for them.

shalafi,

Fuck are you on about? I have 40+ guns (depending on how you define “gun”) and only one, bought from a close friend, without a federal background check.

“GuN sHow LoOpoLe!!” coming up next? Go to a gun show. Buy a gun without a Form 4473. Be my guest.

kurwa,

I think they’re trying to say a background check wouldn’t / didn’t do anything in this case.

GooseFinger,

I interpreted Donjuanme’s comment as sarcastic, where “no way a background check would’ve stopped this” implied that they thought a background check wasn’t performed, but if it would’ve been, this murder wouldn’t have happened.

Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter. Not a lot of anti-gunners seem to remember that though, which is partly why I interpreted the comment that way.

PoliticalAgitator,

Not everyone who commits a violent crime with a gun has a previous record of doing that, or other indicators that would fail a background check for that matter

Damn, sounds like we should ban guns even harder then if there’s no better system than this one that constantly fails.

Still though, weird that so many other countries are doing this impossible thing so much better than America, land of the gun.

GooseFinger,

America takes awful care of its citizens, some other countries certainly do better. I wish we’d focus more on addressing the root cause issues that push people to commit violence instead of superficial actions like banning weapons, though. Even if all guns disappeared overnight, the conditions that incentivize violence would still be around.

Pratai,

We can do BOTH.

PoliticalAgitator, (edited )

Gun control isn’t about curing violence and it never has been. Even 50 years of your social reforms won’t cure violence. Gun control is about limiting the damage that violent people are able to do.

To put it bluntly, your views are nothing more than feigned compassion.

I have no idea how you convince yourself that you’re the good guy for advocating “I wish there were less violent people but until then, I want to ensure they always have cheap, accessible tools that are able to execute one person every few seconds, even after being charged with domestic abuse or under extreme mental distress”.

It’s not a “superficial action”. It’s a measurable, proven harm reduction strategy that could start saving lives the very day it went into effect. It’s deeply reprehensible to claim that’s a trivial thing, just because you don’t think the lives it saves will ever be ones you value.

And of course the cherry on top of all of these dogshit views is that if you’re a gun owner, you’re financially supporting Republican efforts to block exactly the reforms you’re alluding to.

Fondots,

So by your own admission you have purchased a gun through what many people commonly call the “gun show loophole”

Look, it’s a stupid name, I wish people would stop calling it that, it really has nothing to do with gun shows, calling it the “Walmart Parking Lot Loophole” or “My Buddy’s Garage Loophole” would be a lot more accurate, and I think people make themselves look uninformed by continuing to use that term, but at the end of the day that’s exactly what they’re talking about.

RememberTheApollo_,

Every gun owner is a good guy with a gun until they aren’t.

THE_MASTERMIND,

Why does it matter he could’ve killed his dad woth a knife if he wanted to

PoliticalAgitator,

But he didn’t. He used a gun, like they always use guns.

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

Wasn’t it only like a week or two later that a Florida man killed his father for getting the covid shot?

I’d keep spamming the notion of not rewarding the banner of right-wing extremists who take the cake in causing the vast majority of political violence and homicide.

BonesOfTheMoon,

God in heaven you’re right: www.wesh.com/article/…/46671473#:~:text=BEACH%2C ….

Killing your father to own the libs.

mods_are_assholes,

alt-right violence is on an unprecedented rise, and if you traced it back I bet nearly every fuckdamn one of them was a gamergater to begin with

DragonTypeWyvern,

G*mers getting mad at this

mods_are_assholes,

ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?!

/banvideogames is already fucking here?

Screw you and every one of you rancid alt-right forum sliding fucks.

Every fuckdamn one of you fascist assholes.

DragonTypeWyvern, (edited )

G*mers rising up from their poop buckets~

mods_are_assholes,

Fuck off fascist

Meowoem,

What is happening?

mods_are_assholes,

A group of alt-right 4chan users eventually went on to create the rxxit sub /r/BanVideoGames for the purposes of diluting rising sentiment against gamergate.

They deliberately mirrored legitimate arguments and amped it up to satirical levels so that any time anyone tried to search about the unsavory and often times illegal actions of gamergaters, instead of getting actual info they would get pages of /banvideogames memes.

On top of that, they actively harassed several early users who called them out for what they were.

They pretend to be a satire sub, but have you noticed anything unusual about most rxxxid satire subs?

You guessed it, 4chan fascists.

clay_pidgin,

Wait this is a DIFFERENT right wing depatercapitator? Goodness. If I had a nickel…

Jimmyeatsausage,

I feel we’re sitting at the intersection of several risk factors… too many uncontrolled guns, not enough healthcare (including mental healthcare), a very stressed society, and an entire political and media infrastructure telling people not to trust their doctors, not to trust their medicine and not to trust their neighbors. I’ve got my own opinions about who is responsible for most of that, and I’m sure everyone else here does too.

I think we’re in for a long time of random act of violence, some from deeply unwell individuals, and some calculated and planned by rational, if sociopathic, actors.

Agent641,

Dont forget the toxic, brain-damaging lead in the air and soil!

lennybird,
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

And rampant substance abuse, and traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).

gAlienLifeform,
@gAlienLifeform@lemmy.world avatar

traumatic brain injuries (eg, football).

This just made me think about a news story I saw a few years ago talking about how the Marines used to use a rocket launcher that gave the troops who fired it concussions and maybe/probably permanent TBIs, and I was just about to comment about how they used to use those…

2018 - “Marines Who Fired Rocket Launchers Now Worry About Their Brains”

2023 -“U.S. Troops Still Train on Weapons With Known Risk of Brain Injury”

lennybird, (edited )
@lennybird@lemmy.world avatar

As soon as you mentioned these launchers, I immediately thought about the Carl Gustav launcher. I didn’t see these formal investigations by journalists but I heard veterans (in the context of seeing these launchers given to Ukrainians) recounting just how jarring it was to fire these.

It’s tragic you can see the culmination of all these debilitating forces on peoples’ brains at a national scale.

pan_troglodytes,

was the kitchen knife like, a meat cleaver or just a normal paring knife? honestly, article reads like meth psychosis was the real culprit

Deceptichum,
@Deceptichum@sh.itjust.works avatar

While some sort of major mental malfunction happened, previous articles mention the guy was heavily involved in RWNJ conspiracies for years before this event. That certainly was a large driving factor of his offense.

PoliticalAgitator,

Grooming people like this is exactly why the far-right took over conspiracy spaces in the first place.

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