SHARON, MASS. (WHDH) - A knife-wielding man broke into a home in Sharon and assaulted the homeowner with her three children inside after crashing his car in the snow Thursday night, police said.
Ricardo Francis, 39, Hyde Park, was arraigned in Stoughton District Court Friday morning to face multiple felony charges, including armed home invasion.
Sharon police received multiple 911 calls from a residence on Billings Street about a man with a knife who had broken into the home and assaulted the mother of three school-aged children just before 11:30 p.m., according to authorities.
A patrol officer responding to the scene encountered Francis in an upstairs bedroom, where he was placed into custody, police said.
“He was just screaming. ” Officer Richard Perry said. “I just got on him and (held him down) until he complied.”
The mother sustained non-life-threatening injuries as a result of the alleged assault but her three children, who were also inside the home, remained unharmed.
“He took a glass frame and drove it into her skull,” Sharon Deputy Don Brewer said of the assault on the mother. “(She) tried to lure him outside, but he didn’t take the bait. He locked her out.”
The three kids were still inside, trying to find a place to hide.
“There was one point when he opened the door where a child was behind a door and he was looking at the child, and the child said, ‘Please, I’m too young, Don’t kill me,'” Brewer said.
A preliminary investigation revealed that Francis had run his car off the roadway in the snow and struck another vehicle that was at the end of the Billings Street home driveway before breaking into the house, according to police.
Authorities do not believe Francis and the victims are connected.
The incident remains under investigation.
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