Press Release  Autopsy completed, Hinsdale woman’s death ruled a homicide

PITTSFIELD — The preliminary results of an autopsy on a Hinsdale woman indicate she died from multiple gunshot wounds. 

Dr. Robert Welton, an Associate Medical Examiner for the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, conducted the autopsy on 24 year old Kassedi Clark today in Holyoke and has ruled the death a homicide. 

32 year old MICHAEL S. BOULAIS (53 Ashmere Drive) has been arrested and charged with one (1) count of MURDER in connection with the death of his estranged girlfriend.  BOULAIS is expected to be arraigned on the murder charge Tuesday morning in Central Berkshire District Court.  He is being held at the Berkshire County House of Correction without the right to bail pending his arraignment.

At approximately 8:30 Friday morning the Hinsdale Police Department received a 911 call reporting a possible shooting at 53 Ashmere Drive.  When officers arrived on the scene they found Clark’s body inside a vehicle on the property. 

The investigation is being conducted by state troopers assigned to the District Attorney’s Office, members of the Hinsdale and Dalton Police Departments, the Berkshire County Sheriff’s Department, state troopers assigned to the Cheshire barracks, the Massachusetts State Police Crime Scene Services and Ballistics Sections and forensic scientists assigned to the State Police Crime Laboratory.

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