PROVIDENCE — A Providence County Grand Jury on Thursday indicted David Leite, 32, on a charge of murder in connection with the stabbing death of his girlfriend in their Woonsocket apartment.

Police found the body of Melissa Perry, 32, the mother of three children, in a 33 Ormond St. apartment on March 12 after Leite was involved in a single-car accident on Old Louisquisset Pike in Lincoln and told investigating officers to look for a deceased woman back home at his apartment.
The suspect, a former Pawtucket resident, is alleged to have killed the victim by repeatedly stabbing her during a domestic altercation in the third-floor apartment they had occupied just a few weeks before.
Perry’s family members and friends would later say they believed the suspect became violent when he suspected she was about to leave him.
Estranged from her husband and father of her three children, Perry was reported to have met Leite through the myspace.com social networking Web site five months prior to her death.
Jo-Ann Boyer of Pawtucket, the victim’s mother, said the relationship initially seemed to be going fine without signs of violence. Then two weeks before her death, Melissa was said to have told family members she was having second thoughts about the relationship and reported alleged obsessive actions by Leite to track her activities through texting and other electronic means.
Her death came after Perry had put a short bout of unemployment behind her with a new job as a certified nursing assistant at the Mount St. Francis Nursing Home on Maple Street. She moved into the apartment on Ormond Street with Leite to be close to work and was able to walk back and forth to the nursing home each work day, family members said.
The medical examiner’s office ruled Perry’s death a homicide after determining she died from multiple stab wounds suffered in the attack.
The Grand Jury found the charge of murder to be domestic in nature, according to Michael J. Healey, a spokesman for Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch.
Leite will be arraigned on the charge in Providence Superior Court on April 29, 2009.