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 domiciled successful nan investigation that led to Karen Read's original mistrial connected execution charges testified Thursday that, early on, he told different authorities that John O'Keefe whitethorn person been deed successful nan look pinch a barroom glass, causing injuries to his look and head.

Investigators, however, yet alleged that Read struck her Boston bull fellow pinch nan backmost of her Lexus SUV and fled nan scene, leaving him to dice successful nan 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 sewage State Police Sgt. Yuri Bukhenik to concede connected Thursday that he called nan aesculapian examiner's agency and said location was a anticipation that O'Keefe could person been deed successful nan look pinch 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 nan aesculapian examiner's agency to pass them that Mr. O'Keefe quote, was struck successful nan look pinch a cocktail glass, aliases astatine slightest appeared to be, correct?" Jackson asked.

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

Jackson trim him off, objecting during his ain statement of questioning. After a little sidebar, Judge Beverly Cannone told nan witnesser to do his "best" to reply nan questions he was asked.

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

"Yes," Bukhenik replied.

"And did you authorities to them that location was a anticipation that the decedent, John O'Keefe, was struck successful nan look pinch 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 meticulous to what I mightiness person said," nan sergeant replied.

Jackson pressed him astir what he did to unafraid nan house, a imaginable crime 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 nan commencement astir whether O'Keefe entered Albert's location astatine 34 Fairview Road hours earlier he was recovered dormant connected nan beforehand lawn.

Of those three, only Jennifer McCabe has testified arsenic of Thursday successful Read's 2nd trial. She told jurors she saw Read's conveyance extracurricular nan location soon aft midnight but ne'er saw either Read aliases 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 nan house," she said.

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

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

Brennan, connected nonstop examination, asked Bukhenik if location was a building astir that successful rule enforcement circles.

In this tribunal room video still framework presented to nan jury, Karen Read, right, talks pinch her boy friend John O'Keefe, left, while opinionated successful nan 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 surgery taillight. Brennan played Ring camera video taken from O'Keefe's driveway that showed nan ray was cracked erstwhile she near his location astir 5 a.m. connected Jan. 29, 2022.

Bukhenik said he questioned Read astir nan surgery taillight later that greeting and quoted her arsenic saying, "I don't cognize really 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 correct limb by nan clip Bukhenik saw him astatine Good Samaritan hospital, he said.

Bukhenik, who moved to nan U.S. from Ukraine erstwhile he was 9 and joined nan Marine Corps aft 9/11, is expected to return to nan witnesser guidelines Friday greeting erstwhile tribunal resumes astatine 9 a.m. ET.