The 24-year-old Amherst man charged in a shooting in Amherst last month is due back in Eastern Hampshire District Court for a probable cause hearing Thursday to determine whether the case should be bound over to Superior Court.
BELCHERTOWN - The 24-year-old Amherst man charged in a shooting in Amherst last month is due back in Eastern Hampshire District Court for a probable cause hearing Thursday to determine whether the case should be bound over to Superior Court.
Malek Bosmond is charged with assault and battery with a firearm, assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, carrying a dangerous weapon and discharging a firearm within 50 feet of a building following a Dec. 20 shooting at Mill Valley Estates that sent one man to the hospital with a wound to his leg.
At a hearing last month, Bosmond's lawyer, Alfred Chamberland, questioned whether his client was even at Mill Valley at the time of the attack.
A pretrial hearing has been scheduled Thursday as well for Bosmond's co-defendant, Akieli Brown, also 24, of Amherst. He faces a charge of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (metal pipe).
Both men have pleaded not guilty.
The victim, who was visiting his stepson at the apartment complex, told police he did not know either man. Assistant Northwestern District Attorney Matt Russo told the court last month that both men had visited the apartment before and hung out.
On Dec. 20, he said the two men had gone there to fight the victim's stepson, who was there visiting his girlfriend.
"Mr. Brown and Mr. Bosmond were looking for a fight," he said.