The Pennsylvania conspiracy theorist accused of beheading his father and showing it in a sick YouTube video claimed that his dad had “betrayed” him by working for the federal government — and that he had to die.
Justin Mohn, 32, of Levittown, appeared in court on Tuesday and revealed that a nonsense conspiracy theory motivated him to commit the heinous crime, local NBC 10 reports.
“I and a lot of other people around America believe that the federal government has betrayed America, they are destroying the country and we have to do something to take our country back,” Mohn told reporters as he was escorted by police.
When pressed on how exactly the murder and decapitation of his father, Michael Francis Mohn, 68, would further his goal, the suspect claimed his murdered dad was part of the problem.
“He was a federal employee and betrayed me,” he said. “I was trying to perform a citizen’s arrest. He resisted that citizen’s arrest.
The elder Mohn worked as an engineer the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ Philadelphia office.
“It’s lawful to use deadly force in that event,” he added.
This is a developing story.
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