A Massachusetts professor pleaded not responsible to operating over her police officer boyfriend and leaving him for lifeless in a snowbank after an evening of ingesting in Boston’s suburbs throughout final weekend’s nor’easter.
Karen Learn, 41, was arraigned on expenses of manslaughter, leaving the scene of a severe accident and motorcar murder Wednesday in reference to the demise of Boston Officer John O’Keefe, in keeping with the Boston Globe.
Bail was reportedly set at $50,000 for the fairness analyst and adjunct professor of finance at Bentley College, as feelings ran excessive in a packed Stoughton, Massachusetts, courtroom.
Learn was barhopping with O’Keefe, 46, on Friday night time, and dropped him off at a home occasion in Canton, a police affidavit reportedly mentioned. She allegedly slammed into him along with her SUV whereas making a flip as she left, prosecutors mentioned.
Within the morning, Learn seen that her car was broken as she frantically tried to get in contact with O’Keefe to search out out why he didn’t come dwelling. She enlisted two pals to assist work out what occurred, in keeping with the report.
Learn’s buddy advised investigators “she believed Karen was nonetheless intoxicated within the morning” and mentioned the suspect “didn't bear in mind final night time,” the article mentioned.
When the suspect and her pals discovered the 16-year police veteran, he was face up, unconscious and lined in snow close to bloodstains and a damaged cocktail glass in blizzard circumstances that dumped some 30 inches of powder on the realm, the article mentioned.
Learn reportedly tried to resuscitate O’Keefe, however he died later within the day at a hospital. She admitted to mowing him down on the scene, telling first responders, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him, I hit him,” the article mentioned.
O’Keefe’s longtime regulation enforcement associate was in courtroom as his alleged killer was arraigned, the Globe reported. He declined to offer his title to the paper, however advised them O’Keefe had been courting Learn for years.
“He was one of the best individual on the planet,” he reportedly mentioned.
Boston’s high cop attended the arraignment in uniform together with dozens of women and men who seemed to be off-duty cops, the newspaper mentioned.
“The Boston Police Division continues to grieve over the tragic lack of our brother, Police Officer John O’Keefe,” Superintendent-In-Chief Gregory Lengthy wrote in an announcement Tuesday. “John was a sort individual, devoted to his household, and shall be significantly missed by his coworkers and anybody who had the privilege of assembly him.”
Learn’s lawyer mentioned his shopper was in shock and distraught over O’Keefe’s demise, which he mentioned was an accident. Protection lawyer David Yannetti advised the newspaper he thought prosecutors had rushed to cost Learn as a result of the sufferer was a politically related cop.
“Manslaughter is an incredible attain on this case,” Yannetti reportedly mentioned in courtroom. “I don’t see any prison intent … this was my shopper’s boyfriend, someone with whom she was in love.”
O’Keefe, a Braintree native, had stepped as much as be the caretaker of his niece and nephew after each their mother and father died, police mentioned in an announcement.
“John was not solely a devoted police officer, he was an exemplary guardian, son, brother, uncle and buddy and we have been so lucky to have him as part of our lives,” the assertion mentioned. “When John’s sister handed away, after which her husband did as effectively a short while later, John welcomed the chance to boost his beloved niece and nephew and construct a house and a life round their wants.”
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