FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — An “urban explorer” has been handed yet another charge related to a break-in at a private school and church. He was accused of being the “ringleader” by one of the businesses that were broken into.
19-year-old Orion Killen has been charged with a Level 5 felony of Burglary. This will be his second felony charge and fourth charge overall in a series of break-in cases throughout Fort Wayne. He also faces two misdemeanor charges of criminal trespassing.
Killen is accused of breaking into a Fort Wayne private school and church that have been under renovation. There, court documents allege that he and two other men were captured on video surveillance footage roaming the hallways of the church and school and wearing hard hats, two of which were reported stolen.
When reporting the break-in to the Fort Wayne Police Department, a school representative said that the trio entered the building using an unlocked door located in an outside courtyard that could only be accessed by jumping off the building’s roof. Video of the individuals inside the church and the school was then posted to a TikTok account allegedly belonging to Killen.
Fourth person charged in ‘urban explorer’ break-in at law office
The account also includes several more videos of groups of people inside locations after hours that Killen and other individuals have been charged with breaking into. Police believe that one of these individuals is Charlotte Messmann, who was accused of breaking into a law office and the Fort Wayne Zoo with Killen…