Paramedic affirms she listened to Karen Read claim, ‘I struck him,’ in murder retrial

An initial -responder affirmed Monday in Karen Read’s murder retrial that she listened to the accused claim, “I struck him,” several times after her guy, Boston law enforcement officer John O’Keefe, was located less competent in the snow outside a Massachusetts home in 2022.

District attorneys affirm, adhering to an evening of alcohol consumption in Canton, that Read struck O’Keefe with her Lexus SUV beyond a party at one more police officer’s home and left him to pass away in a snowstorm in January 2022. A postmortem examination located that the 46-year-old passed away of hypothermia and candid pressure injuries to the head.

After a court was incapable to get to a judgment in the first murder test in 2014, Read is being retried on costs consisting of second-degree murder, car homicide while running a lorry intoxicated of alcohol and leaving the scene of an accident creating fatality. She has actually begged blameless and preserves her virtue, with her lawyers suggesting the cops examination was “filled with mistakes” and declaring that witnesses conspired on their narrative regarding O’Keefe’s fatality.

Katie McLaughlin, a Canton fireman paramedic that reacted to the scene after Read and 2 others located O’Keefe in the snow outside the house, was among numerous witnesses that affirmed Monday in the recurring test.

As she did when she affirmed throughout the initial test, McLaughlin informed the court that Check out informed her, “I struck him,” while she was attempting to obtain information on O’Keefe throughout the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

” I asked if there had actually been any type of substantial injury that took place that preceded this, and she addressed with a collection of declarations that she duplicated– ‘I struck him. I struck him,” McLaughlin affirmed.

McLaughlin affirmed that she listened to Read claim, “I struck him,” 4 times.

A police officer that was likewise existing after that signified for his sergeant to find down, she claimed.

McLaughlin claimed she really did not ask Check out to clarify what she indicated.

” I really felt then, provided the scenario and just how troubling– and it was an extremely psychological scenario, the female was mad– I really did not really feel comfy pressing and requesting even more. I simply really did not believe that it was the correct time for that,” she claimed. “And it was likewise truly not my location then, and I seem like that was something that the cops were– that’s even more their duty.”

McLaughlin claimed she consequently informed 2 associates in the rescue at the scene what Read presumably claimed.

O’Keefe was located by a flagpole near the home of Boston law enforcement agents Brian Albert.

Comparable to the initial test when McLaughlin affirmed, defense lawyer Alan Jackson barbequed the witness on her connection with Albert’s little girl, Caitlin, while discussing times both have actually participated in the very same functions.

McLaughlin defined Caitlin Albert as a person she mosted likely to senior high school with, shares shared buddies and fraternizes, yet would not think about a pal.

” We have actually understood each various other for many years, yet we are not buddies,” McLaughlin claimed. “We do not have a connection, simply her individually. It’s simply team setups.”

Jackson likewise examined if McLaughlin took any type of notes on what she claimed she listened to Read claim. The paramedic claimed she really did not, and had actually just written group details on O’Keefe onto her handwear cover, such as his name and day of birth.

Asked by the district attorney just how she kept in mind Read’s supposed comments, she claimed, “I will not ever before fail to remember those declarations.”

Jennifer McCabe, a crucial witness for the prosecution, affirmed recently that she likewise listened to Read claim, “I struck him,” while standing with Read and McLaughlin.