Karen Read allegedly had nine drinks in three hours during a January 2022 blizzard bar crawl before prosecutors say she rammed her cop boyfriend with her SUV and left him to die while “seething in rage.”
“What she’s doing is she’s getting shot glasses of vodka and then pouring them in the drink,” Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally told Norfolk Superior Court jurors in his closing argument on Tuesday, shortly before jurors began deliberating.
Hours later, John O’Keefe, a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Department, was found lying unconscious on a fellow officer’s snow-covered front lawn with a bleeding forehead contusion, swollen eyes, and initial stages of frostbite. As authorities descended upon the chaotic scene, Lally said, Read was screaming that her boyfriend’s death was all her fault, repeating, “I hit him. I hit him. Oh my God. I hit him.”
