Mom of police officer allegedly killed by Karen Read recalls learning her son was 'found in a snowbank'
In tearful testimony, the mother of a Boston police officer recounted Wednesday how her son was discovered unresponsive in a snowbank and disputed comments made about her in media interviews by Karen Read, whom prosecutors accuse of killing the officer.
In tearful testimony, the mother of a Boston police officer recounted Wednesday how her son was discovered unresponsive in a snowbank and disputed comments made about her in media interviews by Karen Read, whom prosecutors accuse of killing the officer.
Peggy O’Keefe testified that she got a call around 6 a.m. Jan. 29, 2022, from a friend of her son John O’Keefe’s who was with Read when she discovered the unresponsive officer on the front lawn of Brian Albert, then a sergeant with the Boston Police Department.
“She said, ‘John was found in a snowbank,’” O’Keefe recalled. “I didn’t understand. I said, ‘What do you mean?’ She’s like: ‘Found him in the snow. They don’t know what happened.’”
O’Keefe did not testify during Read’s widely publicized first trial, which ended with a hung jury last summer.
Read, 45, was charged with second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision causing death.
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