The Pennsylvania conspiracy theorist accused of decapitating his dad and then flaunting his head in a sick online video is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.
Justin Mohn, 32, made various animated facial expressions as he sat, wearing a yellow jumpsuit with his hands cuffed in front of him, during a five-hour court hearing.
The defense expert, Dr. John Markey, testified that Mohn suffered from a delusional disorder.
The accused killer claimed he was a messiah and a King David-like figure whom the federal government was persecuting for his public rantings against migrants, the Biden administration, the LBGTQ community, Black Lives Matter, and “far-left woke mobs.”
Mohn even fired his own public defender after becoming convinced he was working with the federal government — which he wanted to overthrow, according to Markey.
The suspect also bizarrely wrote a letter to Russia’s ambassador to the United States, seeking to strike a deal to give him refuge and apologizing to President Vladimir Putin for claiming to be the czar of Russia, the doctor added.
“It’s all delusional,” Markey said.
But the judge sided with the prosecution’s psychologist, who determined Mohn was competent after a June 30 evaluation.
Mohn told the court that he was under the impression he had passed the competency test after their meeting.
He also said he understood that, if convicted of the crimes, he could face the death penalty or life without parole — which under Pennsylvania law makes him competent enough to stand trial.
Mohn is accused of gunning down his 68-year-old father at his home in Levittown and then using a knife and machete to sever his father’s head — which he then wrapped in plastic and showed off in a deranged video that was posted to YouTube.
The alleged killer then dumped Michael Francis Mohn’s head in a cooking pot for his mother to find before driving his father’s car more than 100 miles to the National Guard Training Center.
Mohn was carrying a 9mm handgun and a USB device that included photos of federal buildings and apparent instructions on making explosives when he was arrested at the center — where he was reportedly planning to “mobilize the National Guard to raise arms against the federal government,” prosecutors said.
He spouted outlandish conspiracy theories leading up to the heinous crime that called for the killing of FBI agents, IRS employees, US marshals, federal judges, border control officers and others “betraying their country,” officials said.
He allegedly believed his father — a 20-year veteran engineer with the geoenvironmental section of the US Army Corps of Engineers Philadelphia District — was “in hell for being a traitor to his country.”
Mohn faces a slew of charges ranging from first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse to making terrorist threats and robbery.
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