WESTFIELD – At the dangerousness hearing in Westfield District Court on Thursday morning for Adrian B. Hinds, 25, of Westfield, Attorney Jiacheng Yu from the Committee for Public Counsel Services made a motion to continue the hearing until Monday, and a second motion to make the victims available at the hearing.
The case was continued, and Judge Philip Contant took the motion to produce the victims under advisement, after the district attorney’s office said the Commonwealth would oppose the motion.
Hinds is charged with attacking his neighbors and their dog with a hammer on the morning of March 23 at Southwood Acres, located at 342 Southwick Road, where he and the victims live. Westfield Police Capt. Michael McCabe said the victims suffered severe lacerations to their skulls during the attack.
Hinds was arrested by Springfield Police on March 24, the day after the assault. He was arraigned in Westfield court the next day, and held without the right to bail until the dangerousness hearing.
He is charged with two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon with serious bodily injury, two counts of armed assault to murder and one charge of animal cruelty, according to court logs.
