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Prosecutors have said Justin Mohn shot his father with a newly
purchased pistol, then decapitated him with a kitchen knife and
machete. The 14-minute YouTube video was live for several hours
before it was removed.
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. He had hoped to
get the soldiers to “mobilize the Pennsylvania National Guard to
raise arms against the federal government,” Bucks County
District Attorney Jennifer Schorn said at a news conference last
year.
Mohn had a USB device containing photos of federal buildings and
apparent instructions for making explosives when arrested,
authorities have said.
He also had expressed violent anti-government rhetoric in
writings he published online, and the YouTube video included
rants about the government, immigration and the border, fiscal
policy, urban crime and the war in Ukraine.
Mohn’s defense attorney, Steven M. Jones, said last week he did
not anticipate the case being resolved with a plea deal.
Michael Mohn, who was 68, had been an engineer with the
geoenvironmental section of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. In
the video, Justin Mohn described his father as a 20-year federal
employee and called him a traitor.
During a competency hearing last year, a defense expert said
Mohn wrote a letter to Russia’s ambassador to the United States
seeking a deal to give Mohn refuge and apologizing to President
Vladimir Putin for claiming to be the czar of Russia.
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