Karen Read — the girl accused of killing boyfriend John O’Keefe, a Boston police officer, by backing into him after dropping him off at a Canton dwelling — has been indicted for second-degree homicide and different fees.
Read, 42, of Mansfield was indicted by a Norfolk County Grand Jury on the fees of second-degree homicide, motorized vehicle manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting demise within the Jan. 29 demise of O’Keefe, 46, a 16-year member of the Boston Police Department and Read’s boyfriend of two years.
She pleaded not responsible to the fees at Norfolk Superior Court the subsequent day.
These are up to date fees within the case. Read pleaded not responsible in Stoughton District Court on Feb. 2 to her authentic fees of manslaughter, leaving the scene of a motorized vehicle collision inflicting demise and motorized vehicle murder. She had been out on $50,000 money bail following that arraignment till she was arrested Thursday on the brand new indictment fees.
O’Keefe was present in entrance of the Fairview Road dwelling in Canton within the early morning of Jan. 29 as snow was already falling closely forward of that weekend’s main nor’easter. He was transported to Good Samaritan Medical Center the place he was pronounced useless.
Authorities say that the couple had been out at two Canton bars with associates the night earlier than, and when bars closed they’d agreed to satisfy up for a get-together on the dwelling the place O’Keefe’s unresponsive physique could be found. Prosecutors argue that Read backed up into O’Keefe as she made a three-point flip to return dwelling.
Her legal professional, David Yannetti, has maintained that “there was no criminal intent” in no matter occurred that night time and has emphasised that the couple was a loving one. He has additionally stated his consumer was serving to him to lift O’Keefe’s niece and nephew, who he had adopted following the demise of their mother and father, Kristen and Stephen Furbush, who died in 2013 and 2014.
A GoFundMe web page was arrange for the youngsters and it closed after having raised $336,735 for the youngsters, far in extra of its authentic $10,000 purpose.
“John was not only a dedicated police officer, he was an exemplary guardian, son, brother, uncle and friend and we were so fortunate to have him as a part of our lives,” O’Keefe’s household stated in a press release just a few days after his demise. “People talk about someone who would give you the shirt off their back but that was truly who John was, and it is heartbreaking for us to suddenly be talking about him in the past tense.”
Read is scheduled to subsequent seem for a pre-trial convention on Aug. 12.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”