Igor Lanis had mental health issues after diving down the “Q rabbit hole”, and he died in a shootout with police after murdering his wife.
FacebookThey were a ‘perfect’ family until Igor (centre) fell down the ‘rabbit hole Q’.
Around 4 a.m. on September 11, 2022, Igor Lanis, 53, and his wife, Tina, got into an argument. Ten minutes later, their daughter Rachel called the police to report that she had been shot by her father.
Rachel could not provide information, The daily beast reported, but police were able to determine the family’s home address in Walled Lake, Michigan by triangulating the call.
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When authorities arrived on the scene, Igor Lanis burst through the front door, shooting them with a Remington 870 pump-action shotgun. Officers returned fire, killing Lanis outside his own home.
Then they noticed Rachel, 25, at the front door, “attempting to crawl out of her home,” police said in an official statement. “They dragged her to safety. She said her father shot her and her mother.
Inside the house, police found the body of Tina Lanis, 56, with multiple gunshot wounds to her back. Investigators believe she had been trying to flee the house when she was killed.
Par BNC Newspolice also discovered that the family’s Pyrenean dog had died after being shot multiple times.
Rachel Lanis was taken to a nearby hospital and rushed for emergency surgery. His father had shot him in the back and legs. She was in critical condition when she arrived, but after the operation doctors said she was stable.
However, she may no longer be able to walk.
Rachel’s younger sister, Rebecca, was at a friend’s birthday party when the murder took place, but in a Publish she did on the “QAnonCasualties” subreddit, she wrote, “I’m shocked and don’t even know what to say.”
Michael S. Williamson/The Washington Post via Getty ImagesQAnon supporters are far-right extremists who believe Donald Trump is waging a covert war against a cabal of cannibalistic, satanic pedophiles within the Democratic Party.
Rebecca Lanis a dit The Detroit News that she believed her father had always been prone to mental issues, but his time spent reading and engaging in online conspiracies pushed him over the edge.
Igor Lanis was a car designer with no criminal history, but for the past two years he was reportedly “more restless” than usual.
“He had a sense of reality,” Rebecca Lanis said. “But after 2020 when Trump lost, he started going down these crazy rabbit holes.”
Before her father became obsessed with dangerous right-wing conspiracies, Rebecca described her parents as “extremely loving”.
But as his fascination with QAnon deepened, Igor Lanis’ mental health declined sharply. He cut ties with his religion and began insisting his family watch conspiracy videos about vaccines, 5G cell towers and how President Biden “stole” the election.
He was also said to have been convinced that prominent world leaders were not human. Rather, he believed they were reptilian aliens in disguise, controlling humanity as part of the New World Order.
Friends and family had tried to reason with Lanis, but Rebecca said arguing with him was pointless – it was like “he’s been possessed by a demon”.
Sean Rayford/Getty ImagesA man wearing a QAnon t-shirt at a Trump rally last September in Perry, Georgia.
“I kept getting warning signs from him so I slowly started to distance myself,” she wrote in response to a reply on Reddit. “Unfortunately my sister and my mother were too loving to believe he could actually go wild like that.”
Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard said The Detroit News that he believed that Igor Lanis presented “a danger to anyone. He had his keys with him, so who knows where he was going… It’s terribly sad on so many levels.
Rebecca Lanis is now warning others to keep an eye out for family members who may be following QAnon. “I think people need to focus more on radicalization,” she said. “And if they have armed relatives who are like that, you need to ask them for help and they need to be put in a mental institution, even if you think they’re not dangerous.”
“It’s really shocking,” Rebecca warned, “but it really can happen to anyone.”
Unfortunately, Igor Lanis isn’t the only one letting his fringe beliefs turn violent. Last October, QAnon-obsessed father Matthew Taylor Coleman murdered his two young children, who he said had “snake DNA.” Other conspiracy theorists, meanwhile, have taken to harassing Vegas shooting victims online.