Beheading Suspect Competent To Stand Trial: Judge

Updated: 12:15 p.m. Friday

LOWER BUCKS COUNTY, PA —The Levittown man accused of beheading his father in their home is competent to stand trial, a judge ruled Thursday.

Justin Mohn, 32, is charged with killing his father in January and posting a disturbing YouTube video holding his father’s decapitated head and calling for violent attacks against members of the federal government.

A hearing was held for Mohn Thursday which determined that he was mentally competent to stand trial, said Manuel Gamiz Jr., director of communications for the Bucks County District Attorney’s Office. He also requested a new lawyer.

Mohn believes his public defender is working with the federal government that he wants to overthrow, the Bucks County Courier Times reported. That is what a forensic psychologist testified, the newspaper said.

A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for Aug. 22.

The hearing at the Bucks County Justice Center will determine if there is enough evidence to proceed to trial on the charges against the Middletown Township man.

Mohn, of the 100 block of Upper Orchard Drive, was arrested hours after the Jan. 30 killing of his father and charged with first-degree murder, abuse of a corpse, and possession of an instrument of crime.

Authorities later filed three counts of terrorism charges against him.

Police had received information about a 14-minute video posted to YouTube, which showed Mohn picking up the decapitated head of his father, identifying him by name and as his father.

In the video, Mohn ordered all militia and patriots across the United States to kill all federal employees.

Hours after the murder, investigators tracked Mohn’s cellphone to the National Guard Training Center in Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County. There, he climbed a barbed wire fence and entered a secure military installation.

The investigation revealed that Mohn went to Fort Indiantown Gap to mobilize the National Guard to raise arms against the federal government.