WESTFIELD – A Springfield man has been held without right to bail after threatening to kill his father and attacking him with a baseball bat.
An emergency dispatcher alerted police at 8:39 a.m. Saturday that an open line 911 call had been received and a male party was heard yelling “put the gun down.”
Officer Joseph Stoyak was the first to arrive, two minutes later, and was followed within seconds by Officer Kerry Paton.
Paton reports that he and Stoyak found the front door smashed and open and when they entered the residence they found the residents struggling on the floor with a man identified as their son, Michael W. Boudreau, 35, of 13 Plum St., Springfield.
The officers saw that the elder man had a gun in his hand which he appeared to be trying to keep away from the younger man and Stoyak took the gun from his hand and secured it.
Paton wrote in a court document that Boudreau is the defendant of an abuse prevention order which prohibits contact with his father. He reports the 66-year-old victim said that his son “smashed out the front door window with a baseball bat and stated ‘I am going to kill you’” before the victim, reportedly a retired police officer from a nearby community, went to his bedroom to get a gun, “a Smith and Wesson .357”.
Assistant District Attorney Magali Montes, arguing in support of a pretrial detention hearing, wrote that “(The) defendant struck him with the bat and punched him. (The) victim fired a warning shot, but the defendant didn’t stop the assault” which continued until the arriving officers took control of the situation.
Paton reports the victim had “a large laceration on his head and there was a large amount of blood coming from his head and on the floor where they were struggling.”
The victim was transported to Noble Hospital for treatment of a scalp injury that a senior police officer later called “significant.”
Boudreau was arrested and charged with home invasion, two counts of attempted murder (with the bat and with the gun), assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, assault and battery in a domestic relationship, threatening to commit a crime and violation of an abuse prevention order but when he appeared before Judge Philip A. Contant for arraignment Monday in Westfield District Court the two attempted murder charges had been dropped.
Boudreau was held without right to bail pending a dangerousness hearing Thursday but at the hearing he was found to be in need of a psychiatric evaluation and the hearing was continued until Friday.
