Karen Read was allegedly overheard uttering, “I deed him, I deed him, I deed him” aft uncovering her Boston bull fellow dormant successful the snow, a cardinal witnesser testified Wednesday.
The witness, Jennifer McCabe, told jurors she heard her crazed person making the alleged admittance to a archetypal responder astatine immoderate constituent aft they recovered John O’Keefe’s assemblage connected Jan. 29, 2022.
McCabe, who was with Read astatine the clip and was the 1 who called 911, said she interrupted her person due to the fact that “I thought she was talking crazy.”
“Karen was hysterical, irrational,” McCabe testified successful the Dedham, Massachusetts, courtroom. “She’s doing a batch of screaming, asking ‘is helium dead, is helium dead, is helium dead. She conscionable was benignant of each implicit the place.”
McCabe returned to the basal nether transverse introspection successful the sensational execution proceedings Wednesday — a time aft she testified that her person repeatedly kept asking “Did I deed him?” and “Could I person deed him?”
Prosecutors allege Read, 45, backed into O’Keefe, 46, with her Lexus SUV aft a nighttime of drinking astatine a friend’s location successful Canton — and past near him to dice arsenic a snowstorm approached.
After receiving a hysterical telephone from Read astir 5:30 a.m. the greeting after, McCabe told jurors that she, Read and a 3rd pistillate drove unneurotic to the location successful hunt of the Boston cop.