Grand jury indicts QAnon believer accused of killing his children

A federal grand jury in California indicted a QAnon believer who is accused of killing his two young children in Rosarito, Mexico.

Matthew Taylor Coleman, 40, was charged with two counts of foreign first-degree murder of United States nationals for killing his 2-year-old son and 10-month-old daughter, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California announced Wednesday.

Coleman was originally charged in Los Angeles by criminal complaint in August. The U.S. attorney’s office said Wednesday that it intends to drop that complaint.

In the initial complaint, an FBI agent said that Coleman confessed to killing his children.

He explained that he drove the two children from their home in Santa Barbara, Calif., into Mexico. He placed his daughter in a box because he didn’t have a car seat.

“Coleman stated that he believed his children were going to grow into monsters so he had to kill them,” the affidavit said.

Coleman told authorities that he first killed his daughter with a spearfishing gun, and then killed his son. He moved their bodies to some brush 30 yards away, and discarded of the bloody clothes and spearfishing gun near a creek.

Coleman told authorities that he was interested in the QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories. He explained that he was receiving visions that his wife “possessed sergeant DNA and had passed it onto his children.”

“Coleman said that he was saving the world from monsters,” the complaint said.

Coleman is eligible for the death penalty, but the attorney general will decide whether to seek such punishment at a later date. Coleman was expected to make his initial court appearance on the indictment in a Los Angeles federal court Thursday.