Man claimed QAnon made him kill his children, FBI says

The FBI said in court documents filed Wednesday that a man charged with killing his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter blamed QAnon for his actions.

Matthew Taylor Coleman believed his wife “possessed serpent DNA” and passed it to their children after he said he was educated on QAnon and the Illuminati, extreme conspiracy theories with no evidence for their claims, an FBI agent said in an affidavit.

Coleman said “he was saving the world from monsters,” FBI agent Jennifer Bannon said in the affidavit, The Washington Post reported.

The affidavit alleges Coleman took his two children from their home in Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday and drove them to Rosarito, Mexico, placing the 2-year-old in the back seat and the 10-month-old in a box since he didn’t have a car seat.

Once he got to Rosarito, he shot both of his children in the chest with a spearfishing gun and threw them in the bushes before returning to the U.S. with blood on his vehicle, according to the affidavit.

Coleman has been charged with the foreign murder of U.S. nationals.

His wife initially called the police on Saturday when Coleman wasn’t answering her calls, but told the police she didn’t believe the children were in any danger, according to the affidavit.

She filed a missing persons report the next day, saying the two weren’t having any difficulties with the marriage and nothing would have spurred him to take the children.

It is unclear how Coleman got wrapped up in QAnon, according to the Post.

He lived in Santa Barbara for more than 10 years, mentoring kids at a nonprofit and teaching at a high school. He married his wife in 2017 and had posted family pictures and videos on his social media accounts.