Affidavit tells of victims' last hours
Coroner reports mother strangled, she, 3 kids stabbed
JAMIE DUFFY | The Journal Gazette
She was found kneeling beside her bed, her three young children face down on the same bed.
Their throats had been cut, a probable cause affidavit filed Thursday in Allen Superior Court said.
About 11 a.m. Wednesday, a man and woman worried about the family who lived in a home at Gay and McKee streets went to check on them. As officers approached the home, the couple yelled, “He killed them. They're dead,” court records said.
Several hours later, Fort Wayne police homicide detectives and Indiana state troopers arrested Cohen Bennett Hancz-Barron, 21, of the 2600 block of Curdes Avenue. He was charged with four counts of murder and was being held at the Allen County Jail.