Defense rests for woman accused of killing her Boston officer boyfriend with SUV

DEDHAM, Mass. — The defense called its final witnesses Monday in the murder trial of a Massachusetts woman accused of striking her Boston police officer with her SUV and leaving him to die in a snowbank.

Karen Read pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder in the death of Officer John O’Keefe. Prosecutors contend she struck O'Keefe with her SUV and then left the scene in January 2022. He was found unresponsive hours later outside the Canton home of another Boston police officer who was hosting a party. An autopsy found he died of hypothermia and blunt force trauma.

Read’s lawyers contend O’Keefe was brought outside after he was beaten up Albert's home and bitten by Albert’s dog. They used Sheridan’s testimony to reinforce their theory about the dog, despite a lack of canine DNA evidence, and to suggest that the injuries don’t line up with being struck by Read’s Lexus SUV.

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