A Bucks County man has been charged with murder after he allegedly decapitated his father and displayed his head during a video posted on YouTube.
Justin Mohn, 32, was captured Tuesday night inside a National Guard training center in Lebanon County. His mother contacted police when she discovered her 68-year-old husband, Michael F. Mohn, dead inside their Levittown home.
“This is the head of Mike Mohn, a federal employee of over 20 years and my father,” Justin Mohn said in the video while holding a head wrapped in plastic. “He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country.”
During the graphic 14-minute clip, which was later removed from YouTube, Mohn called for the murder of federal employees. Michael Mohn spent more than 20 years as a civil engineer in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
While drinking a bottle of water, and, at points, wearing plastic gloves, Mohn declared himself the commander of “America’s national network of militias.” He advocates for the resignation of President Joe Biden; mass deportation of undocumented immigrants; and the end of “all woke and gender ideology propaganda in schools and other public places,” among other things.
Mohn refers to lawsuits he filed against the federal government. He has repeatedly and unsuccessfully sued the United States for approving student loans that allowed him to attend Pennsylvania State University.
Most recently, in December, a judge tossed a case where Mohn sought $10 million because he felt he had not attained good employment as an “overeducated white male” supposedly victimized by affirmative action and reverse discrimination, according to court documents.
Though the YouTube diatribe included radical far-right talking points, Mohn did not mention former President Donald Trump, any conservative politicians or any specific right-wing groups.
His mother, Diane Mohn, told police she left the home on the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive where she lived with her son and husband at around 2 p.m. Tuesday and returned at around 7 p.m., according to the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office.
She contacted authorities after she found her husband’s body, prosecutors said. Justin Mohn was gone, and his father’s car was no longer in the driveway, according to police.
Officers discovered the elder Mohn dead in a first-floor bathroom, with a machete and a large kitchen knife in the bathtub, investigators said. His head was found inside a pot in a bedroom, police said in an affidavit of probable cause for Mohn’s arrest. Authorities also recovered multiple pairs of bloody gloves from the room, the document said.
Detectives were alerted to the video and reviewed, matching the room, head, and gloves to the scene at the Mohn house, prosecutors added.
Using cellphone data, police tracked Justin Mohn to the area of Fort Indiantown Gap, a sprawling National Guard Training Center in Lebanon County, said Angela Watson, communications director for the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Fort Indiantown Gap Police located Mohn’s vehicle and found him walking near offices located on the military installation, she told Metro. Officers apprehended him without incident just before 9:30 p.m. Tuesday, and he was carrying a firearm, Watson said.
Mohn has never served in the National Guard and had no apparent connection to the training center, officials said.
Following his arrest, he was sent to Bucks County Correctional Facility, where he is being held without bail. In addition to murder, he is charged with abusing a corpse and possessing an instrument of crime with intent.
Court documents on Wednesday did not list an attorney representing Mohn. He has no prior criminal history in Pennsylvania, a court record search indicates. A preliminary hearing in the homicide case is scheduled for Feb. 8.
A spokesperson for the FBI’s Philadelphia office confirmed that the bureau is assisting the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office with the investigation.
