An American man was arrested for killing his child.
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- Matthew Taylor Coleman He was accused of killing his two young children with spears and guns in Mexico because he believed they would become monsters.
- Coleman admitted that he took his two——The 1-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter went to Mexico, where they shot them in the chest with a harpoon gun.
- He said his wife possessed snake DNA and passed it on to his children.
The federal complaint alleges that an American father accused of killing his two children with a harpoon gun claimed that he was “inspired” by QAnon and other conspiracy theories and was saving the world from “monsters” with “snake DNA”.
The complaint prepared by federal agents stated that 40-year-old Matthew Taylor Coleman told the California authorities that he knew he had done something wrong, but that “this is the only plan of action to save the world.”
Coleman was accused on Wednesday of taking his two-year-old children to Mexico and killing them there before returning to the United States, where he was arrested.
The children’s mother issued the first alarm on August 7, when Coleman took them away from their shared home. He said he took them camping, but refused to tell her where she was, and did not answer the phone or text messages. He also did not carry a child car seat with him.
A day later, the police tracked him using the “Find My iPhone” app, which showed that his last known location was Rosarito, Mexico.
When he returned to the United States the next day, he was detained by the FBI at the border.
Coleman admitted to shooting and killing his two children with a harpoon gun and leaving their bodies in Mexico, where Mexican authorities found them.
According to the complaint, he “represented that he believed his children would grow into monsters, so he had to kill them.”
He told the agents that he was “inspired by the QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories, and received visions and signs that his wife…had the snake’s DNA and passed it on to his children,” it said. Continue to say.
The complaint stated that he told federal law enforcement that he believed he was “saving the world from monsters.”
Coleman is accused of murdering American nationals in a foreign country.
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