As Karen Read stands test momentarily time in Massachusetts for the claimed murder of her policeman sweetheart, the sufferer’s mommy discussed her boy’s fatality openly for the very first time on Wednesday.
District attorneys declare that, adhering to an evening of alcohol consumption in Canton, Read struck her sweetheart– Boston law enforcement officers John O’Keefe– with her Lexus SUV beyond a party at an additional police officer’s home and left him to pass away in a snowstorm in January 2022.
After a court was incapable to get to a decision in the first murder test in 2015, she is being retried on fees consisting of second-degree murder, car homicide while running a car intoxicated of alcohol and leaving the scene of a crash triggering fatality. She has actually begged innocent and keeps her virtue.
O’Keefe’s mommy, Margaret “Peggy” O’Keefe, was not phoned call to affirm in Read’s very first test.
While affirming for the Republic on Wednesday, Peggy O’Keefe defined her boy as an “passionate” follower of sporting activities that was “fantastic” with his niece and nephew, for whom he supplied key guardianship following their moms and dads’ unforeseen fatalities.
” He was their No. 1,” she claimed, shakily, “They called him JJ.”
She sobbed when unique district attorney Hank Brennan revealed a picture of her boy grinning.
John O’Keefe’s mommy Peggy states finding out about her boys fatality throughout the Karen Read test in Norfolk Superior Court at Dedham, Mass., on April 23, 2025.
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When asked to state the early morning her boy’s body was found, Peggy O’Keefe remembered the minute she reached the Do-gooder Healthcare Facility in Brockton looking for her boy. As she strolled down the corridor in the direction of the emergency clinic, she remembered seeing Read basing on the side of the passage, howling bent on her, consistently asking if John O’Keefe was “dead.”
After John O’Keefe was obvious dead later on that early morning, his mommy remembered leaving the healthcare facility and event in his home with her partner and her grandchildren to grieve with each other.
She claimed Read turned up with participants of her very own family members, which she really did not remember speaking with the accused. She claimed they left after around 10 to 15 mins, eliminating Read’s Lexus SUV parked in the driveway from the facilities.
The protection did not ask Peggy O’Keefe any type of concerns.
” I am extremely, extremely sorry for your loss,” defense lawyer Alan Jackson informed her.
