Murder demand for girlfriend who allegedly ran in excess of Boston cop in snowstorm

A Boston-region woman has been charged with second-degree murder in the demise of her boyfriend, a police officer who was located dying in a snowstorm immediately after she allegedly ran in excess of him with her auto.

Karen Read, 42, was also indicted Thursday for motor car murder and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in loss of life, in accordance to the Norfolk District Attorney’s place of work.

Examine experienced originally been billed with manslaughter and had been absolutely free on $50,000 bail because Feb. 2. Right after the indictment, she was taken into custody at her Mansfield home on Thursday and is envisioned to be arraigned Friday.

The fees result from the dying on Jan. 29 of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, 46.

Right before dawn that morning, all through a highly effective nor’easter storm, O’Keefe was located lying in a snowbank exterior a friend’s property in Canton. He was pronounced dead at a healthcare facility shortly afterward. He had a significant head damage and was also struggling from hypothermia.

Many several hours before, all over 12:30 a.m., Browse had dropped him off at the friend’s household soon after the couple experienced been at a bar. She told investigators she had not been emotion nicely, so she went property by herself. When she afterwards was not equipped to make contact with O’Keefe by phone, she had good friends push her to the Canton dwelling. There they observed O’Keefe in the snowbank, unconscious and bleeding from the nose and mouth.

When paramedics arrived, the distraught Study informed them, “I strike him, I strike him, I hit him,” Norfolk prosecutor Adam Lally claimed.

Boston Television station WBZ noted that household surveillance movie confirmed that Examine backed into O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV although producing a 3-issue flip and then drove away.

The two experienced been courting for two many years.

O’Keefe was a 16-12 months veteran of the Boston Police Department. He was boosting his sister’s young children, whom he adopted following they had been orphaned. At the time of her arrest, Read was a finance teacher at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., and a researcher for Fidelity Investments.