Police say a Wisconsin man broke into a D.C. family’s home, pinned down an 18-year-old woman and attempted to sexually assault her early Wednesday.
Dontrae Henderson, 26, was arrested and charged Thursday following the alleged incident in D.C.’s Kalorama neighborhood.
Separately, Henderson faces charges related to allegations he broke into another home later that same day and that he entered restricted areas outside the White House in May, according to court records.
What happened at the family’s home
Just before 2 a.m. Wednesday, the woman said she heard someone in her room and at first thought it was one of her two sisters, who also live in the home in the 2400 block of Kalorama Road Northwest.
The man, later identified by police as Henderson, jumped on her bed and held her down while telling her, “I want to be your boyfriend tonight” and saying he wanted sex. He covered the woman’s mouth and nose with his hand as the woman screamed, the court documents said.
She told investigators that she agreed to stop screaming if the man moved his hand, according to court documents. The woman talked to the man as he continued to hold her down, and told him not to touch her.
She was eventually able to get away from the man and run into a bathroom that’s connected to one of her sister’s rooms, the court documents said.
In an email, a D.C. police spokesperson said when officers arrived, they discovered the man had left the house.
Peering through glass
Video from one of the home’s security cameras appears to show Henderson was on the property hours before the reported attack, according to a description of the footage in the court documents.
One of the woman’s sisters had friends over, and at around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, a man can be seen peering through a glass door into a basement where one friend was sleeping on the couch.
Footage also shows the man repeatedly returning to the glass door, looking through it and touching it.
The sister’s friends left the house just after midnight through the front door.
Police haven’t clarified how they believe the man got into the home. But a back door, not captured by video cameras, was unlocked when officers arrived.
Confronted by police at a nearby, unoccupied home
Henderson was arrested Wednesday night at around 9:30 p.m. and charged with unlawfully entering a house on Tracy Place, 0.1 mile away from the reported attack, according to court documents.
Henderson had been warned the previous day that he was barred from the building. He told officers that he lived in the house and had apparently fraudulent paperwork showing his ownership.
No one lives at that home on Tracy Place, but the property’s owner is preparing to put it on the market, according to court documents.
reports Ivanka Trump used to live in the $6 million home.
Police said Henderson matched the description of the suspect who attacked the 18-year-old woman.
Henderson told police that he was the man in the footage from the Kalorama Road home, but denied going inside that house. He also admitted entering the house on Tracy Place, according to court documents.
When asked what he was doing peering into the house on Kalorama Road, he told investigators he saw girls drinking and thought it would be fun to join.
He also said it was probably creepy for him to look in windows and check to see if the door was locked.
Henderson is awaiting a preliminary hearing in D.C. court in connection with Wednesday’s alleged incident, and has been charged with assault with intent to commit first degree sexual abuse, burglary, disorderly conduct in the form of peeping and unlawful entry.
In a separate incident, Henderson has also been charged with unlawful entry after allegedly ignoring signage and entering a restricted area in the White House complex on May 3. He told police he had an “interview with the President regarding a job.”
Court records show he was ordered to keep away from the area near the White House — an order he’s allegedly violated multiple times. Henderson was arrested on Aug. 11 after officers said they found him near the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
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