CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — A Brighton man accused of breaking into a Cambridge home and standing over a teenage girl as she slept appeared in court Tuesday.
Leo Chaisson, 25, answered burglary and assault charges Tuesday for allegedly breaking into a family's home in Cambridge around 1 a.m. Saturday morning.
The break-in happened at Hunting Street in the Wellington-Harrington neighborhood of Cambridge.
"It's very horrifying," said Amancio Pires.
Pires told Boston 25 News his neighbor was the apparent victim.
"I went to my camera system and I provided the Cambridge Police evidence pictures and video of the suspect," he said.
Police credited neighbors with helping them ID the suspect. Surveillance video showed the suspect walking into the gated driveway at 1:09 a.m. Less than five minutes later, the same person was seen running out of the yard with a bicycle.
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Court papers say Chaisson entered the home through an unlocked rear door, went up to the girl's room, sat on her bed, and then began to touch her face. The girl said she thought it was her mother and told her to stop.
She then heard a male voice say, "Be quiet. Shhh."
She awoke and screamed.
Chaisson fled, stole a bike and kept going.
Witnesses at a nearby bar told police they saw a man matching the suspect's description earlier that night. He had been asked to leave the bar due to how intoxicated he was. He had left his credit card at the bar and that's how police tracked him down.
He told police he blacked out and didn't remember what happened overnight and into the next morning.
Chaisson is due back in court in two days for a dangerousness hearing. Meanwhile, he's being held without bail.