On Nov. 22 at around 10:15 p.m., Hannah Viverette was enjoying a relaxing evening alone in her apartment. "I love to meditate, I love to dance. A lot of times, I will set my phone up on record when I’m doing so," she told BuzzFeed.
"My whole world stopped," Hannah said. "I was prepared for him to pull something out of his pockets because he would not take his hands out of his pockets as he was staring at me and mumbling things that I couldn’t understand."
She yelled at him to leave her apartment and watched him go back on the balcony, then she immediately knocked on her neighbor's door and called 911.
The police didn't arrive until over 40 minutes after she called, but the investigation was able to take off quickly, due to the fact that Hannah had seen the man before. "I’ve seen him plenty of times, but only at my apartment complex. I did not know where he lived, I didn’t know his name, I knew nothing about this man except what he wore, which was often some sort of construction attire," she said. "And he was always driving the same white truck."
The man had acted creepily toward Hannah on multiple occasions, often staring at her as she sat on her balcony. "He had made a point to make me uncomfortable and it was almost as if he liked it," she said. "He would make sure that I knew that he was looking at me."
In the days following the break-in, Hannah learned that the man lived in the building across the street from her. The morning after the incident, she told the leasing office what happened and they brought him in for questioning. When his story didn't align with Hannah's video evidence, the police were able to call him down to the station. "He pretty much incriminated himself when he admitted to climbing my balcony, but lied and said that he was invited up," Hannah said.
He spent the night in jail, but was released on bail the following morning. Hannah has filed a peace order against him, which is similar to a restraining order, but he will not be evicted from his apartment until Dec. 14. "He still has two more weeks until his eviction. That is not OK with me," she said.
Following the incident, Hannah had a terrifying realization regarding something that had happened a couple months prior. "In early September, about a month after moving in, I woke up in the middle of the night to find a random notebook lying by my couch by my front door," she said. It looked like a book that would belong to a maintenance person, so the next morning she went down to the leasing office and demanded to know if any of the building's employees were in her apartment.
