Defense says to expect ‘fireworks' when ATF agent Brian Higgins testifies Friday in Karen Read trial

Higgins is one of three men that Read's defense team has said had motive, opportunity and means to attack John O'Keefe on the night of his deathRead is accused of striking her boyfriend, Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe, with her SUV on Jan. 29, 2022, and leaving him for dead in a snowbank in Canton. She has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder and other charges.

He is one of three men that Read's defense team has said had motive, opportunity and means to attack O'Keefe that night., Read's defense team tried to implicate a key prosecution witness, accusing her of conducting an incriminating internet search hours before the man's body was discovered and then deleting the search to cover her tracks.

“You made that search at 2:27 am because you knew that John O’Keefe was outside on your sister’s lawn dying in the cold, didn’t you?” attorney Alan Jackson asked McCabe. “Did you delete that search because you knew you would be implicated in John O’Keefe’s death if that search was found on your phone?”

Jackson said it was “awfully convenient” that McCabe disavowed the search, which he said would exonerate his client. He also pressed McCabe on why she told grand jurors a dozen times that Read said, “Did I hit him?” or “Could I have hit him,” and not the definitive, “I hit him” that she now says she heard.

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