Man accused of beheading father in their home is competent to stand trial, judge rules

Mohn, 32, came to believe his own public defender was an agent of the federal government and working against him as well, and he wrote to Russia’s ambassador to the United States, seeking to strike a deal to give Mohn refuge and apologising to President Vladimir Putin for claiming to be the tsar of Russia, Markey said.

“It’s all delusional,” Markey said.

Mohn following his arrest in January in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, US. Photo: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office / Handout via Reuters

A forensic psychologist who testified for the prosecution, though, said Mohn was competent.

Mohn, wearing a yellow prison jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him, sat in the courtroom throughout the testimony, his chin titled up slightly. He reacted, at times animatedly, throughout the hearing.

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

Justin Mohn then recorded a video in which he held up his father’s head and identified him as a 20-year federal employee, while calling for violence against the government. Prosecutors have said they found blood stains on the desk in the room where the video was recorded along with a computer that had several tabs open, including one for YouTube.

In the video, Justin Mohn also espouses a variety of conspiracy theories and rants about the Biden administration, immigration and the border, fiscal policy, urban crime and the war in Ukraine.

The video was posted on YouTube for several hours before it was taken down.

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