UPDATE: Motorcyclist Dies in Great Barrington Collision

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Update: The Great Barrington Police Department reported Wednesday that the victim of the July 4 motor vehicle accident was Antonio Desousa, 68 years of age, from Danbury Conn.
 
The accident remains under investigation by the Great Barrington Police, Massachusetts State Police Detective Unit, Massachusetts State Police CARS Unit, and the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office.
 
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Originally published on July 5, 2022 at 11:44 a.m.
 
GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. — A 68 year old Connecticut man died from injuries sustained from a collision with a car near Bistro Box.
 
On Monday July 4 at 12:02 PM, a motor vehicle crash occurred on south end of Main Street in front of the Bistro Box. 
 
A grey 2019 Honda Accord, driven by, Tandoh Devine, 22 of Pittsfield, was traveling south bound. Preliminary investigation shows that the Honda Accord was turning left into the driveway of the Bistro Box, crossing the northbound lane into the path of a 2006 Harley Davidson motorcycle. 
 
As a result of the collision, the operator of the motorcycle, a 68 year old Connecticut resident, was severely injured and flown to Albany Medical Center where he later died from his injuries. 
 
The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of his family. 
 
The operator and other occupants of the Honda Accord did not suffer any injuries. 
 
Officers from the Great Barrington Police Department, the Great Barrington Fire Department, Canaan Ambulance, and Sheffield Police assisted on the scene. 
 
The investigation is ongoing by the Great Barrington Police Department, Massachusetts State Police CARS Unit, and the Berkshire County District Attorney's Office. Investigators area asking if anyone eye witnessed the crash to contact the Great Barrington Police Department at 413-528-0306.

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Sheffield Man Charged with Murdering Connecticut Man

Update 4:52 p.m.: The victim has been identified as 40-year-old Michael Moore of Winsted, Conn.
 
Bushnell pleaded not guilty in District Court and his being held without right to bail and a no-contact order to witnesses. 
 
The witness who contacted police Monday said the defendant had shown him the body under a mattress in a greenhouse on the property. The witness was able to leave the property and immediately drove to a Connecticut State Police station near to his location.
 
According to the DA's Office, there were signs of blunt force trauma to Moore's head and a puncture wound in his back. Bushnell apparently returned to his property later that day because of reports his house was on fire; police believe that was prompted by the emergency dispatch calls. 
 
When the defendant returned to the house, "he was wearing clothes stained in reddish/brown consistent with blood," according to the DA's Office.
 
Bushnell, a local painting contractor, and the victim had a friendship and professional connection, including being friends on Facebook. Both men were painters and sometimes worked together, according to the DA's Office, and, prior to the murder, there was a conflict between the defendant and victim regarding a shared job.
 
"Additionally, leading up to the murder the defendant began to demonstrate paranoid behavior and also altered the position of and turned off other security cameras around his property,"  according to the DA's Office.
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