State trooper points to possible weapon in John O'Keefe death – and it's not Karen Read's car

A Massachusetts State Police sergeant who played a cardinal relation successful the probe that led to Karen Read's archetypal mistrial connected execution charges testified Thursday that, aboriginal on, helium told different authorities that John O'Keefe whitethorn person been deed successful the look with a barroom glass, causing injuries to his look and head.

Investigators, however, yet alleged that Read struck her Boston bull fellow with the backmost of her Lexus SUV and fled the scene, leaving him to dice successful the cold, connected Jan. 29, 2022. Police arrested her connected hit-and-run manslaughter charges days aft she recovered him dormant extracurricular 34 Fairview Road successful Canton, Massachusetts, and prosecutors secured an indictment for second-degree execution months later. 

Defense lawyer Alan Jackson got State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik to concede connected Thursday that helium called the aesculapian examiner's bureau and said determination was a anticipation that O'Keefe could person been deed successful the look with a cocktail glass.

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Karen Read listens arsenic Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik testifies during her proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa/Pool)

"At 10:41 a.m., you called the aesculapian examiner's bureau to pass them that Mr. O'Keefe quote, was struck successful the look with a cocktail glass, oregon astatine slightest appeared to be, correct?" Jackson asked.

"That is successful portion what I advised the aesculapian examiner's office," Bukhenik began. "Where they are, liable for the aesculapian information of…"

Jackson chopped him off, objecting during his ain enactment of questioning. After a little sidebar, Judge Beverly Cannone told the witnesser to bash his "best" to reply the questions helium was asked.

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"Did you interaction the aesculapian examiner's bureau astatine successful (sic) the greeting of … January 29th, 2022?" Jackson asked.

"Yes," Bukhenik replied.

"And did you authorities to them that determination was a anticipation that the decedent, John O'Keefe, was struck successful the look with a cocktail glass?"

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Defense lawyer Alan Jackson cross-examines Massachusetts State Police Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik during Karen Read's proceedings connected May 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa/Pool)

"I don't callback my words exactly, but that sounds close to what I mightiness person said," the sergeant replied.

Jackson pressed him astir what helium did to unafraid the house, a imaginable transgression scene.

Nothing.

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Jackson besides asked if cardinal witnesses, specified arsenic chap Boston Police Officer Brian Albert, his sister-in-law, Jennifer McCabe, and her husband, Matt McCabe, could person lied from the commencement astir whether O'Keefe entered Albert's location astatine 34 Fairview Road hours earlier helium was recovered dormant connected the beforehand lawn.

Of those three, lone Jennifer McCabe has testified arsenic of Thursday successful Read's 2nd trial. She told jurors she saw Read's conveyance extracurricular the location soon aft midnight but ne'er saw either Read oregon O'Keefe travel inside.

Outside tribunal Thursday, wherever she was not speaking nether oath, Read told reporters successful plain words that she saw him spell inside.

John O’Keefe (Boston Police Department)

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"I saw him spell successful the house," she said.

When she was asked if she could picture the "how and when," she said nary but said she has successful the past and believes peculiar authoritative Hank Brennan whitethorn play a clip astatine trial.

Investigators recovered a breached solid and achromatic straw separately from the scene, arsenic was O'Keefe's missing sneaker, grounds that Bukhenik said supported investigators' eventual mentation that the unfortunate had been struck by a centrifugal vehicle.

Brennan, connected nonstop examination, asked Bukhenik if determination was a operation astir that successful instrumentality enforcement circles.

In this tribunal country video inactive framework presented to the jury, Karen Read, right, talks with her lad person John O'Keefe, left, portion lasting successful the barroom astatine C.F. McCarthy's connected January 29, 2022, during Read's proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court, Thursday, May 8, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool) (Charles Krupa, AP Pool)

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"Knocked retired of your shoes," Bukhenik said.

Another constituent to that mentation was Read's breached taillight. Brennan played Ring camera video taken from O'Keefe's driveway that showed the airy was cracked erstwhile she near his location astir 5 a.m. connected Jan. 29, 2022.

Bukhenik said helium questioned Read astir the breached taillight aboriginal that greeting and quoted her arsenic saying, "I don't cognize however I did it past night."

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O'Keefe had important injuries to his look and caput arsenic good arsenic cuts connected his close limb by the clip Bukhenik saw him astatine Good Samaritan hospital, helium said.

Bukhenik, who moved to the U.S. from Ukraine erstwhile helium was 9 and joined the Marine Corps aft 9/11, is expected to instrumentality to the witnesser basal Friday greeting erstwhile tribunal resumes astatine 9 a.m. ET.