The family of late Boston Police officer John O'Keefe filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Karen Read, who's murder case resulted in a mistrial.
Karen Read, the Massachusetts woman who was accused of killing her police officer boyfriend with a vehicle in January 2022, faces a wrongful death lawsuit filed against her on Monday by the family of the victim. Paul O’Keefe, the brother of late Boston Police officer John O’Keefe, filed the lawsuit on behalf of the O’Keefe family in Plymouth Superior Court. Named alongside Read are the two bars the couple consumed drinks at before O’Keefe’s body was found in a snowbank outside a Canton home.
She pleaded not guilty to charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter while driving under the influence and leaving the scene of a collision causing injury and death. An autopsy found O’Keefe died of blunt force trauma and hypothermia. In the lawsuit filed Monday, which was obtained by FOX 25 in Boston, the O’Keefe family alleges Read 'intended the reckless conduct,' which ended in John’s death. The two bars named in the lawsuit, C.F.
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