Karen Read's Ambulance Ride Admission Becomes Flashpoint At Second Trial

Was John O'Keefe live to perceive nan "last words" from Karen Read erstwhile he died Jan. 29, 2022? That was a cardinal mobility prosecutors and her defense sought answers to Friday successful her retrial connected execution charges successful his death. 

Each broadside sought to fresh them into nan discourse of their respective cases.

During an ambulance thrust aft Read, Kerry Roberts and Jennifer McCabe recovered O'Keefe nether a heap of snowfall extracurricular different officer's house, Read told paramedics astir an statement she'd had pinch her boyfriend, some sides agree.

But a cardinal constituent of contention Friday arose during nan grounds of a Canton firefighter and paramedic named Jason Becker.

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Karen Read speaks pinch her defense squad during her proceedings Friday, April 25, 2025, astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass.  (Josh Reynolds /New York Post via AP, Pool)

Prosecutors allege Read intentionally ran complete O'Keefe aft a drunken statement and near him to dice during a snowstorm. She has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of murder, manslaughter and fleeing nan scene, and her defense denies she struck him astatine all.

Read conceded extracurricular nan courthouse that matter messages betwixt her and O'Keefe publication successful tribunal Thursday depicted an "argument" she thought was "embarrassing" to person shared publicly.

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Special charismatic Hank Brennan portrayed nan remark Becker mentioned arsenic a reference to an statement betwixt nan two.

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"When you said to nan defendant, and she shared pinch you that her past words pinch her ‘husband’ were (an) argument, why didn't you inquire for much item astir that?" Brennan asked.

Becker and his partner, chap firefighter and paramedic Daniel Whitley, some testified they were nether nan belief she was nan victim's woman erstwhile they responded to nan incident.

Canton firefighter and paramedic Jason Becker testifies during nan proceedings Friday, April 25, 2025, astatine Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass.  (Josh Reynolds /New York Post via AP, Pool)

"I didn't consciousness it was my, you cognize — astatine nan time, we went astir nan telephone arsenic that we didn't deliberation we would beryllium witnesses successful a execution trial," Becker replied. "We were location to support Karen and yet get her to nan infirmary safely."

Alan Jackson, 1 of Read's defense attorneys, questioned whether Read's connection could person had different context, thing she said complete voicemail aliases earlier successful nan evening.

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"Sir, erstwhile you wrote nan study of your notes, to put into your report, do you retrieve nan connection ‘argument?'" Brennan asked.

"I did," Becker replied.

Defense lawyer David Yannetti gestures while asking a mobility during nan Karen Read proceedings successful Norfolk Superior Court Wednesday, April 24, 2025, successful Dedham, Mass.  (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

"Do you retrieve her really saying nan connection ‘argument’?"

"I did," he replied again. 

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"Do you retrieve her ever saying immoderate connection astir sound messages?" Brennan asked.

"I did not," Becker said.

Becker agreed pinch Jackson, however, erstwhile he asked if "earlier successful nan night" could person referred to an statement with O'Keefe earlier successful nan evening, specified arsenic astatine 6 p.m., 7 p.m., alternatively than astir midnight. 

Karen Read leaves Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Friday, April 25, 2025, astatine nan extremity of nan first week of her 2nd proceedings connected execution charges successful nan decease of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

"Did she ever opportunity whether aliases not she believed he received her past words from her?" Jackson asked.

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"There were nary different details," Becker said. He besides testified that he didn’t inquire her what her "last words" to O’Keefe were.

"But she did — erstwhile she was having this speech pinch you astir her past words to him — she did really return retired her telephone and show you a bunch of missed calls to him astatine nan aforesaid time, didn’t she?"

"She tried to, yes," he said.

Karen Read’s parents time off County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., Friday, April 25, 2025. (David McGlynn for Fox News Digital)

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"In your mind, did you put 2 and 2 together, that what she was really talking astir were nan missed calls and her being upset astir her past words to him being very angry connected those missed calls, those voicemails. Did you put those 2 things together?"

"I didn't," Becker replied.

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Dr. Garrey Faller reviews nan aesculapian grounds of suspect Karen Read arsenic he testified during her proceedings Friday, April 25, 2025, successful Norfolk Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass.  (Josh Reynolds/New York Post via AP, Pool)

Dr. Garrey Faller besides tookx nan guidelines Friday. He oversaw nan pathology laboratory erstwhile Read arrived Jan. 29, 2022, nan aforesaid greeting O'Keefe was recovered dead.

Faller testified Read had a humor intoxicant level of .093%. erstwhile infirmary unit collected a sample conscionable aft 9 a.m.

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She and O'Keefe near nan Waterfall Bar and Grille successful Canton astir midnight. Prosecutors played a clip Thursday from an question and reply successful which she discussed spiking her ain drinks pinch other shots.

Before nan grounds kicked disconnected for nan day, jurors were transported to position nan crime segment astatine 34 Fairview Road successful Canton. Police besides towed successful Read's Lexus SUV to spot it successful nan thoroughfare extracurricular nan house, truthful jurors could spot it successful spot and wherever a surgery taillight had been. 

The first week of grounds is successful nan books. The trial was initially expected to return six to 8 weeks.