21 May 2025 4:23 pm
undetermined.
-----------------------Conversely, Read's defense team maintains that O’Keefe was killed by other individuals present at the Canton home, and that law enforcement officers subsequently engaged in a vast conspiracy to cover up the true circumstances of his death and frame Read.[1]While the core allegations remain the same, several significant differences distinguish the retrial from the first proceeding, potentially influencing the jury's decision:---------------As of May 21, 2025, it is not yet determined whether Karen Read will be found innocent, as her retrial for the death of John O'Keefe is currently underway in Norfolk Superior Court, Massachusetts.[1] [2] The verdict will ultimately be decided by the jury in this ongoing legal proceeding.Karen Read is accused of second-degree murder, vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, and leaving the scene of a collision resulting in death in connection with the January 29, 2022, death of her boyfriend, off-duty Boston Police officer John O’Keefe.[1] [3] Prosecutors allege that Read, then 45, drunkenly drove her Lexus into O’Keefe and left him to die in a blizzard outside a home in Canton, Massachusetts.[1]