Karen Read was allegedly overheard uttering, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him” after finding her Boston cop boyfriend dead in the snow, a key witness testified Wednesday.
The witness, Jennifer McCabe, told jurors she heard her crazed friend making the alleged admission to a first responder at some point after they found John O’Keefe’s body on Jan. 29, 2022.
McCabe, who was with Read at the time and was the one who called 911, said she interrupted her friend because “I thought she was talking crazy.”
“Karen was hysterical, irrational,” McCabe testified in the Dedham, Massachusetts, courtroom. “She’s doing a lot of screaming, asking ‘Is he dead, is he dead, is he dead.’ She just was kind of all over the place.”
McCabe returned to the stand under cross-examination in the sensational murder trial Wednesday — a day after she testified that her friend repeatedly kept asking, “Did I hit him?” and “Could I have hit him?”
Prosecutors allege Read, 45, backed into O’Keefe, 46, with her Lexus SUV after a night of drinking at a friend’s home in Canton — and then left him to die as a snowstorm approached.
After receiving a hysterical call from Read around 5:30 a.m. the morning after, McCabe told jurors, she, Read and a third woman drove together to the home in search of the Boston cop.
