Latest peeper report roils Brighton again

Boston police are investigating after a man was reportedly seen peeping into a Brighton woman’s window Sunday. 

Officers responded to a home on Beechcroft Street in Oak Square shortly before 3 a.m. Sunday after the unknown man was seen lurking around the property. 

One of the home’s residents — identified by WCVB as Boston College student Isabel Hasselbalch — told police she saw the man outside her first-floor kitchen window, walking along the fence line with a flashlight, according to a police report. 

“The victim stated she thought it was the next-door neighbor looking for something in their yard,” the report said. When she later saw the man on the opposite side of the house, looking into her window with a flashlight, Hasselbalch called 911.

She told WCVB the man stared “into my eyes and then instead of running away or anything, he just stays there and then, like, creeps away really, really slowly.”

Hasselbalch told the news station she didn’t get a look at the man’s face. The police report described him as about 5 feet 8 inches tall and wearing a light gray hoodie and jeans. 

According to the report, officers searched the property and surrounding neighborhood, but found no suspects. Police did, however, find a plastic chair in the driveway, directly in front of a window. 

“The victim stated the chair shouldn’t be there and did not belong to her,” according to the report. 

Sunday’s incident comes just a few weeks after Boston police sounded the alarm about a spike in break-ins and attempted break-ins in Brighton. In one incident last month, several Boston College students reported that a man was snooping around their Brighton home; surveillance video showed him peering into windows and jiggling the door handle. 

The Boston College Police Department issued a community alert in February, warning of “several off-campus residential burglaries that have occurred during the evening, and early morning hours in the Gerald Road neighborhood of Brighton.”

Abby Patkin

Staff Writer

Abby Patkin is a general assignment news reporter whose work touches on public transit, crime, health, and everything in between.

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