MI Daughter Says QAnon Conspiracies Pushed Her Father To Shoot The Family, Killing Her Mom

WALLED LAKE, MI — The daughter of a slain family believes QAnon conspiracy theories pushed her father to fatally shoot her mother and wound her sister, before police ultimately shot the man to death in Walled Lake.

Rebecca Lanis said that her father began diving into the online extremism and conspiracy theories after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, believing conspiracy theories about the stolen election and that the elite planned the COVID-19 pandemic.

"I think that he was always prone to (mental issues), but it really brought him down when he was reading all those weird things on the internet," Lanis told the Detroit News.

Officials said they got a chilling phone call from a 25-year-old woman who said her father shot her, her mother and the family dog Sunday morning at 4 a.m. She did not tell officials where the shooting happened, but officers traced the call to a home in the 1200 block of Glenwood Court in Walled Lake.

As officers approached the home, 53-year-old Igor Lanis walked out of the house with a shotgun and began firing shots at officers, officials said. Police returned fire, fatally striking Lanis, officials said.

Lanis' gunfire struck "a car an officer was behind and the residence behind him," but no one "was injured from those shots," officials said.

Officers saw Rebecca's 25-year-old sister crawling out of the home and took her to a nearby hospital where she was upgraded to stable condition Monday, officials said.

However, Lanis said doctors are unsure if she'll ever be able to walk again after she was shot multiple times in her spine and legs.

Inside the home, officers found Rebecca's mother and the family dog dead, officials said.

In a verified account on the QAnonCasualties subreddit page, titled "My q-dad snapped and killed my family this morning," Rebecca said "growing up, my parents were extremely loving and happy people. I always had a special bond with both my parents."

She also warned people to get help for family members who get tied into QAnon conspiracy theories, especially if they have access to guns.

A GoFundMe page was created to help the sisters recover. As of Wednesday, the page raised over $19,000 with over 270 donations.

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