COLD SPRING HARBOR, Long Island (WABC) -- It was a frightening evening for a family on Long Island that had just finished Thanksgiving dinner.
A stranger entered an unlocked side door of the home on Fox Hunt Lane in Cold Spring Harbor at approximately 11 p.m., according to police.
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Authorities say the suspect, identified as Jeffrey Rice found a kitchen knife in the house and went upstairs into a room occupied by a 7-year-old girl and her 85-year-old aunt, then assaulted the woman before exiting the room and being confronted by the 35-year-old female homeowner.
After a brief verbal altercation with the homeowner, and a brief physical altercation with her 37-year-old husband, Rice was escorted outside the house by the husband and his brother and brother-in-law. The family held Rice outside, until police arrived.
The 85-year-old-woman was transported to Huntington Hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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The 7-year-old girl was not hurt.
Rice, 45, of Huntington Station, is charged with first-degree burglary.
Jeffrey Rice is charged with burglary