LEVITTOWN, Pa. – Accused person killed his father and displayed his severed head One scary YouTube video has long fueled conspiracy theories, say those who know him.
Justin Mohn, 32, was arrested Tuesday evening on first-degree murder and other charges after his father, Michael Mohn, was found decapitated in the family home in the Levittown section of Middletown Township, court records show.
In a video that was removed by YouTube hours after it was posted Tuesday, Mohn Jr. described his father as a 20-year federal employee and called him a traitor to his country. He also called for the killing of all federal officials while displaying his father’s head.
“We’re all just in shock,” John Prickett, 68, who lives down the street from the Mohn residence, said Wednesday.
Prickett’s son, Michael Prickett, was a childhood friend of Mohn’s and remembered him as the “big kid” who played hockey in the neighborhood. She said Mohn was a quiet honor student but changed after high school.
“We were really close since we were kids, but it went off the rails when we went to college,” Michael Prickett, who lives in Trevose, Pennsylvania, said Wednesday.
“He’s been talking about the government for 10 years now and how they want to get it and how he should be president – all the crazy stuff that was said in the video last night,” Michael Prickett said by phone. “He’s actually been doing it for 10 years.”
Davis Rebhan moved in with Mohn in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 2016, two years after Mohn graduated from Pennsylvania State University. lawsuit. Rebhan wasn’t close to Mohn, who, he says, has a reputation for telling tall tales — “like how he got into this big fight with six guys and won.” He also said Mohn would “talk a lot about his beliefs there, which is nice.”
“It was a lot of conspiracy stuff,” said Rebhan, who was in college at the time. “He didn’t really have many friends.”
Rebhan, who now lives near Portland, Oregon, said living conditions had been cordial for months until one day after he returned home hours later to find Mohn had “caused a significant amount of damage” to their place.
“He broke the big, old mirror the apartment put in our kitchen, and there were holes in the walls,” Rebhan said. “He basically told me he blacked out and had an incident.”
Rebhan said Mohn never had any friends in their flat. In fact, the only visitor he ever had was his father once.
Strange posts
Rebhan has had other strange interactions with Mohn, including one time when Mohn gave her a copy of a book he had written.
“It’s about him, but not his name,” Rebhan said in the book. “He’s a high school student turned rap star who leads a revolution against the US government.”
The book was one of seven self-published books Mohn had in his Amazon storefront; After news of the alleged murder spread, the books were pulled from the platform. The posts contained dystopian themes and referred to a “second American revolution”. One book, The Revolutionary Leader’s Survival Guide, includes a transcript of a letter to then-President Donald Trump warning of “a peaceful revolution facilitated by the author unless positive change occurs in America and the world soon.”
Another book, The Second Messiah: King of the Earth, was “obviously based” on his life, Mohn wrote. It refers to a “four-year stay in Colorado” that “led to multiple lawsuits.”
According to the platform, Mohn has also uploaded four original albums to Spotify, which has five monthly listeners. He used social media to promote his music, which contains apocalyptic themes.
The neighbors were amazed
The Mohns’ Levittown neighborhood was quiet Tuesday. Resident Keanya Horton, 46, said she kept her children home from school overnight because of the police activity. When she saw Mohn’s picture on the news, she said she immediately recognized him as the man who often walks outside.
“The son was kind of crazy. “He would just walk up and down the street, smoke something or sit on the curb,” she said. “He wasn’t on the phone; he was just smoking and walking around.’
Michael Prickett said Mohn’s father was a “very, very good man” and was deeply involved in Mohn’s upbringing.
“I always remember that he had a good relationship with his father,” she said. “She was very supportive of him.”
Prickett said he was stunned to see the YouTube video Tuesday night before it was released.
“I watched the whole video with my mouth wide open. I shed tears for this,” he said. “The kid I remember as a kid wasn’t the kid I saw in the video last night.”
Reported by David K. Lee of Levittown and Elizabeth Chuck of New York.