Allen County prosecutors filed four formal murder charges against Cohen Hancz-Barron in connection with the deaths of a mother and her three children last week.
Hancz-Barron, age 21, remains in the Allen County Jail.
He was arrested on preliminary charges on June 2 in Lafayette, hours after police identified him as the suspect in the killing of 26-year-old Sarah N. Zent and her three young children, Carter, 5, Ashton, 3, and Aubree, 2, inside a home in the 2900 block of Gay Street in Fort Wayne.
They all died from multiple stab wounds, and their deaths have been declared homicides by the Allen County Coroner’s Office.
Surveillance cameras and witnesses caught Hancz-Barron leaving the southside home around 6 a.m. June 2. He was caught hours later in Tippecanoe County.
According to Indiana court records, Hancz-Barron pleaded guilty to robbery as a level 5 felony last year in Starke County, and was given a six-year suspended sentence to be served on electronic home monitoring.
According to Stark County documents, Hancz-Barron was allowed to serve his sentence at a residential treatment facility in Tippecanoe County. On April 19, he cut his ankle monitor and escaped. He was wanted by police at the time of the killings.
