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NC man breaks into fire station to assault firefighter

Brian Keller, 19, used a sledgehammer to break through a glass door at the fire station

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WAKE FOREST, N.C. — A Wake Forest man is scheduled to be in court today on charges of first-degree burglary and simple assault for breaking into Fire Station 3 in Wake Forest early Saturday morning.

Officials say 19-year-old Brian Craig Keller used a sledgehammer to break through a glass door at the fire station while fire personnel were sleeping. Keller was met in the hallway by a firefighter.

When Keller was confronted, he was holding a sledgehammer in one hand, a bible in the other and was yelling that he was looking for a specific person at the station, according to officials.

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