The Berkshire County Task Force van parked on West Main Street at the bottom of Charles Street on Monday morning. Authorities were investigating a death that has been confirmed as a homicide.
Cheshire Woman Victim of Sunday Night Murder; Husband Charged
Jillian M. Rosado has been identified as the victim in Sunday's murder.
Update Wednesday, June 1: Luis Angel Rosado, 50, has had a murder charge filed against him in Northern Berkshire District in the death of his wife, Jillian Rosado. The file has been impounded and no further information has been made available. The Berkshire Eagle reports that Jillian Rosado sought an abuse prevention order against her husband in March. A Luis Rosado was charged with domestic violence in 2020 and sentence to a year in the Berkshire County House of Corrections.
The Berkshire District Attorney's Office confirmed it had obtained an arrest warrant for Luis Rosado. Police are working on locating and bringing Rosado into custody and request anyone with information about his whereabouts to contact the State Police Detective Unit at 413-499-1112 or local police.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Jillian Tatro Rosado, 38, of Cheshire had been identified as the victim of a homicide Sunday night. Authorities have not released the name of the suspect in the murder.
The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner confirmed on Tuesday that Rosado was murdered but not the cause. The State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office is continuing its investigation into the homicide that occurred at 44 Charles St.
Authorities had confirmed Monday afternoon that the unattended death reported on Sunday night was a murder and that the suspect is apparently still at large.
North Adams Police and Northern Berkshire Emergency Medical Services responded to a residence after receiving a 911 call at approximately 7:54 p.m. Saturday. The victim was deceased at the scene, according to the District Attorney's Office and the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner took custody of the body.
Local and State Police were at the scene on Sunday night and the Berkshire County task force van was parked on West Main Street with several officers until Monday afternoon. North Adams Police posted on Facebook that there was an active crime scene and inquiries at that time were being referred to the District Attorney's Office.
According to Monday's press statement, law enforcement did not believe that the perpetrator "poses an immediate danger" to the general public, intimating that the individual is not in custody.
Berkshire District Attorney Andrea Harrington, Berkshire County Sheriff's Office, State Police Crime Scene Services, and forensic scientists from the State Police Crime Lab also responded to the scene.
According to the police log, Northern Berkshire EMS was dispatched to Charles Street at about 8 p.m. on Sunday; a few minutes later there was a report that there was a death. About a half hour later, Chief Jason Wood was called to the scene and did not leave until around 4 a.m.
Custody of the scene was transferred to State Police early Monday morning.
Charles Street is a small side street off West Main Street just past Hill Side Cemetery heading west. There are about a dozen buildings on the dead-end road.
Anyone with information regarding this matter is encouraged to contact the State Police Detective Unit assigned to the Berkshire District Attorney's Office at 413-499-1112 or the North Adams Police Department at 413-664-4945.
Original post at 9:15 a.m., Monday, May 30, 2022; complete write-thru with updated information.
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MCLA Graduates Told to Make the World Worthy of Them
By Tammy Daniels iBerkshires Staff
Keynote speaker Michael Bobbitt was awarded an honorary doctor of fine arts. He told the graduates to make the world worthy of them. See more photos here.
NORTH ADAMS, Mass. — Amsler Campus Center gym erupted in cheers on Saturday as 193 members of class of 2026 turned their tassels.
The graduates of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 127th commencement were sent off with the charge of "don't stop now" to make the world a better place.
You are Trailblazers, keynote speaker Michael Bobbitt reminded them, and a "trailblazer is not simply someone who walks a path. A trailblazer makes one, but blazing a trail does not happen alone. Every trailblazer is carrying tools made by somebody else. Every trailblazer is guided by stars they did not create. Every trailblazer stands on grounds shaped by ancestors, teachers, workers, neighbors, friends, and strangers."
Trailblazing takes communal courage, he said, and they needed to love people, build with people, argue with people, and find the people who make them braver and kinder at the same time.
"The future will not be saved by isolated geniuses, it will be saved by networks of people willing to practice courage together. The future belongs not to the loudest, not to the richest, not to the most certain, but to the most adaptive, the most creative, the most courageous, the most willing to learn."
Bobbitt was recently named CEO of Opera American after nearly five years leading the Massachusetts Cultural Council. He stressed the importance of art to the graduates, and noted that opera is not the only art form facing challenges in this world.
"Every field is asking, who are we for now? What do we, what value do we create?" he said. "What do we stop pretending is fine. This is not just an arts question, that is a healthcare question, a climate question, a technology question, a community question, a higher education question, a democracy question, a life question. ...
The graduates of Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' 127th commencement were sent off with the charge of "don't stop now" to make the world a better place.
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