Prosecution Rests in the Trial of a Woman Accused of Killing Her Boston Police Officer Boyfriend

Published on June 23, 2024

Attorneys for a woman accused of striking her Boston police officer boyfriend with her SUV and leaving him for dead in a snowbank outside another officer’s home began presenting their case Friday that she was framed by police, with a snowplow driver who said he didn’t see a body. Snowplow driver Brian Loughran, who was on his regular route during a storm early on Jan. 29, 2022, was the first witness called by defense attorneys for Karen Read after prosecutors rested. Read has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges in the January 2022 death of Officer John O’Keefe. The 16-year Boston police veteran was found unresponsive outside Brian Albert’s home in Canton and was later pronounced dead at a hospital. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma....

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