‘Distraught’ and bloody Karen Read tried to save lots of dying cop boyfriend with CPR, courtroom hears on second day of trial | EUROtoday

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The second day of Karen Read’s extremely anticipated homicide trial started with the cross examination of the police officer who was first on the scene the evening Ms Read allegedly killed her then-boyfriend John O’Keefe.

Canton police officer Steve Saraf testified that when he arrived on the Massachusetts house on 29 January 2022, Ms Read had blood on her, and was “hysterical” and “distraught” as she tried to save lots of O’Keefe by performing CPR, whereas others on the scene didn’t.

The physique of her Boston police officer boyfriend was discovered within the snow in entrance of their buddies’ house within the early hours, following an evening of partying at a bar in Canton.

Prosecutors allege Ms Read ran over her boyfriend throughout a snowstorm and left him for useless on the entrance garden.

“She kept saying ‘This is all my fault, this is my fault, I did this. She was very hysterical. She kept asking ‘He’s dead. Is he dead? Is he dead?’” Mr Saraf testified on Monday.

However, throughout cross examination, Mr Saraf admitted that the one assertion he included in his report was Ms Read asking, “Is he dead?”

Defence lawyer Alan Jackson then confirmed the courtroom police sprint cam video which he utilized in an try to level out alleged wrongdoings by the police equivalent to not reporting all of Ms Read’s statements.

The video exhibits Ms Read and the 2 ladies she was with working after they found O’Keefe’s physique as Ms Read is heard screaming “No! No! No!”

Mr Jackson requested Mr Saraf if he heard Ms Read say, “My boyfriend, I left him and he never came home.” The officer stated he couldn’t perceive what she was saying.

Testimony from different responding law enforcement officials will proceed right this moment on the Norfolk Superior Court in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Opening statements acquired below means on Monday within the 44-year-old faculty finance professor who has been charged with homicide in O’Keefe’s demise.

Among the main points which emerged in opening statements on Monday have been textual content messages that the lead investigator within the case, Massachusetts State Police Trooper Michael Proctor, despatched to his highschool buddies, telling them he had “searched her phone for nudes.”

Mr Proctor is now below investigation himself over his dealing with of the case. Massachusetts State Police introduced this March that he was the main focus of an inside investigation for a possible violation of division coverage.

An post-mortem discovered that O’Keefe had a number of abrasions on his proper forearm, two black eyes, a minimize on his nostril, a two-inch laceration to the again of his head and a number of cranium fractures. Authorities additionally say hypothermia was a contributing consider his demise.

Norfolk Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally instructed the jury that the couple had met in 2004, briefly dated, after which rekindled their relationship in March 2020.

In the weeks main as much as Mr O’Keefe’s demise, the connection had soured, he stated, claiming Ms Read had accused the sufferer of getting an affair and had began having considered one of her personal.

Mr Lally instructed jurors that Ms Read had returned to the scene of the homicide earlier than telling a buddy her boyfriend had not come house and asking for his or her assist in trying to find him.

The prosecution pointed to proof together with the cracked tail gentle and a Google search by her buddy Jennifer McCabe as to how lengthy it could take for somebody to die if neglected within the chilly.

In the defence’s opening assertion, Ms Read’s lawyer then stood up and instructed the jury that the prosecution’s case was primarily based on a “shoddy and biased” investigation.

Ms Read’s defence argued of their opening assertion that she has been framed for the homicide, and is the sufferer of a cover-up.

In the early hours of the morning on 29 January, Ms Read’s buddy Jennifer McCabe stated she referred to as her in misery. The finance professor stated she had tried to contact O’Keefe and couldn’t attain him, Ms McCabe instructed authorities. They later met up with one other buddy, Kerry Roberts, who obtained comparable calls from Ms Read.

Ms Roberts instructed police Ms Read referred to as and stated her boyfriend was useless, claiming he might have been hit by a snowplough. Ms McCabe additionally instructed police Ms Read requested her: “Could I have hit him?”

The group then stated they discovered O’Keefe unresponsive mendacity within the snow in entrance of the Alberts’ house. Ms Roberts started CPR, and Ms McCabe referred to as the police.

After paramedics arrived, witnesses stated Ms Read repeatedly requested if her boyfriend was useless. Responding troopers additionally noticed Ms Read had a damaged tail gentle.

The officer was taken to a close-by hospital, however succumbed to his accidents, with Ms Read arrested a number of days later.

She faces prices of second-degree homicide, manslaughter whereas working inebriated, and leaving the scene of non-public damage and demise.

The trial is predicted to final six to eight weeks.