The lawsuit also names the two Canton bars where Karen Read and John O’Keefe drank the night before O’Keefe died.
The family of the late Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe has filed a wrongful death lawsuit against Karen Read, O’Keefe’s girlfriend and alleged killer.
Read, 44, of Mansfield, is accused of drunkenly and intentionally striking O’Keefe with her SUV following a night of bar-hopping in Canton in January 2022. The high-profile case resulted in a mistrial July 1 following a deadlocked jury, and Read’s second trial is slated to begin Jan. 27.
Read has steadfastly maintained her innocence, alleging others were to blame for O’Keefe’s death and accusing law enforcement of framing her in a coverup. Yet in a civil lawsuit filed Monday in Plymouth Superior Court, O’Keefe’s family alleged that Read “knowingly and deliberately changed her story and fabricated a conspiracy knowing the same to be false.”…