On a cold Saturday morning in January 2022, Boston police officer John O’Keefe was found dead on a snow bank outside a colleague’s house.
Days later, his girlfriend Karen Read was arrested and charged with second-degree murder. Prosecutors allege she struck O’Keefe with her SUV outside the home of fellow officer Brian Albert, where he’d spent the night drinking at a party. She is accused of being drunk at the time she hit him, and of leaving him to die.
