By OWEN BOSS
Staff Writer
BELCHERTOWN — An Enfield, Conn. man was ordered held without bail Thursday in connection with an assault last month, during which he and his juvenile son allegedly broke into a South Hadley home and beat a man with a golf club.
Gregory J. Williams, 45, pleaded innocent Thursday in Eastern Hampshire District Court to charges of breaking and entering a building during the daytime to commit a felony, assault and battery and two counts of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon.
After South Hadley police applied for a warrant, Williams and his son were arrested at their Enfield apartment Saturday afternoon by members of the Enfield Police Department on a charge of being fugitives from justice, according to court documents.
Enfield Police Sgt. Mary Ann Christensen said Williams’ son was taken by state police to a juvenile detention center in Hartford, Conn. and Williams was transported to Belchertown for his arraignment Thursday.
South Hadley Lt. Steven Parentella said that at 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 22, Williams and his son reportedly entered a man’s Hillside Avenue apartment through an open sliding glass door and violently beat him while he laid in bed with a female acquaintance.
Both Williams and his son reportedly punched and kicked the victim in the face while he was on the floor trying to defend himself and struck him repeatedly in the head with a Spaulding Rebel 3-iron golf club until it was broken in half, according to court documents.
After sustaining a severe cut on his forehead above his left eye, Parentella said the victim managed to fight the pair off and forced them out of his apartment before calling for police.
Although Parentella said the attack was “not a random act of violence,” he declined to disclose the duo’s suspected motive.
Judge David Ross ordered Williams held without right to bail until his pretrial hearing, which is scheduled for Sept. 10.
Owen Boss can be reached at oboss@gazettenet.com
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