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Karen Read Arrested And Charged: Accused Of Hitting Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe

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Natalie Ross

Published Jan 27, 2026

Karen Read was captured in January 2022 and accused of causing the demise of her beau, Boston Cop John O’Keefe.

The safeguard lawyers for Karen Read, blamed for killing her Cop sweetheart with a SUV in Massachusetts last year, asserted that there is proof showing that another person might have carried out the wrongdoing.

Notwithstanding, they contended that investigators keep essential data connected with the case. They guaranteed that proof from a creature control office and cell information would invalidate the arraignment’s rendition of occasions.

It will likewise highlight companions of the killed Boston Cop, John O’Keefe, who they claim beat him the tar out of and outlined Read for the wrongdoing.

Karen Read was captured and accused of hitting her Cop beau, John O’Keefe, with a SUV in January 2022 external an individual official’s home facilitating a get-together.

During a trial, Karen Read’s legal counselor, Alan Jackson, introduced a post-mortem examination photograph of John O’Keefe. (Source: cbsnews.com)
John’s body was tracked down in a heap of snow outside the home. The guard lawyers of Karen Read guaranteed that the arraignment’s variant of occasions was wrong and that there was proof showing that another person perpetrated the wrongdoing.

They proposed that O’Keefe was beaten inside the home and that his body was unloaded outside.

The safeguard group highlighted wounds on O’Keefe’s arms as proof that the official’s canine went after him during the battle.

Karen Read, a Massachusetts lady, has been blamed for causing the demise of her Cop beau, John O’Keefe, by lethally hitting him with a SUV in January 2022.

As per specialists, O’Keefe was tracked down passing on in a snowbank close to the carport of a companion’s Home, where he had been drinking the prior night. The Police asserted that Read found O’Keefe’s body the following morning, and she was accordingly named the great suspect in his demise.

The Police blamed Read for hitting O’Keefe while driving affected by liquor, avoiding him to die as she upheld with regards to the carport.

Karen Read walks into Norfolk Superior Court accused in the death of officer, John O’Keefe. She’s flanked by her high profile attorneys. Watch team coverage at @Boston25

— John Monahan (@JohnMonahanTV) May 3, 2023


Nonetheless, protection lawyers for Read feel somewhat uncertain about the indictment’s hypothesis and case that there is proof to recommend that another person might have carried out the wrongdoing.

In April, the safeguard group addressing Karen Read professed to have found proof showing her honesty as well as the contribution of others in Official O’Keefe’s demise.

To help this, they documented a movement mentioning extra disclosure, including an examination of phone information from two individuals connected to the property where O’Keefe died.

Notwithstanding, the Norfolk Head prosecutor’s Office asserted that the protection neglected to exhibit the significance of these solicitations and contended that they were made in dishonesty.

The DA’s office alluded to the solicitations as a “fishing trip” and guaranteed they depended on hypothesis and guess with respect to an indicated trick among witnesses.