Karen Learn has sued witnesses from her homicide case who she argues framed her for the killing of John O’Keefe and are “actually involved” in her Boston police officer boyfriend’s dying.
Learn and her protection staff have filed a civil grievance in Bristol Superior Court docket in opposition to witnesses they level to as “third parties” for O’Keefe’s dying and members of the Massachusetts State Police concerned within the homicide investigation.
The grievance comes months after a jury in Norfolk County acquitted Learn of the Boston cop’s homicide.
“For three and a half years,” the grievance states, “Plaintiff Karen Read was wrongly accused of homicide and subjected to suspicion, arrest, two prosecutions, and public condemnation, all resulting from the gross misconduct of the Massachusetts State Police – and those working in tandem with the MSP – to shield from liability the party or parties responsible for the death of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe III.”
“Now, after being acquitted of all charges relating to Mr. O’Keefe’s death,” the grievance continues, “Ms. Read brings this action to recover for and address the actions of those actually involved in Mr. O’Keefe’s death and the law enforcement officers who abjectly failed to ensure that justice was sought and served in the aftermath of January 29, 2022.”
Learn’s attorneys, Damon Seligson and Alan Jackson, reiterate an argument offered in Learn’s two prison trials: That different events inside Brian and Nicole Albert’s dwelling, at 34 Fairview Highway in Canton, killed O’Keefe.
The grievance targets Brian and Nicole Albert, Matthew and Jennifer McCabe and Brian Higgins as being concerned in killing O’Keefe.
Michael Proctor, the lead MSP investigator in O’Keefe’s homicide, who has since been fired and misplaced an enchantment to regain his job, MSP Sgt. Yuriy Bukhenik and MSP Lt. Brian Tully are additionally being sued within the grievance.
The protection argues the MSP investigators “allowed the House Defendants to direct the investigation away from themselves, and towards Ms. Read.”
By way of their attorneys, the “house defendants” are combating again in opposition to Learn’s allegations, describing them as “entirely false, defamatory, and without merit.”
“Our clients categorically deny each and every claim,” the attorneys stated in a joint assertion on Tuesday. “This lawsuit is nothing more than a continuation of a baseless conspiracy narrative that has caused significant harm to the reputations and lives of innocent people.”
“Our clients acted responsibly, fulfilling their civic duty as witnesses, and have participated appropriately in the legal process from the outset,” the attorneys added. “Ms. Read’s claims distort the facts, misrepresent the evidence, and target private citizens in an attempt to deflect blame.”
Learn, 45, was indicted in June 2022 on costs of second-degree homicide, motorcar manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting O’Keefe’s dying.
She was tried twice, first in 2024, which resulted in a mistrial, after which in a second trial, which ended this previous June when a jury acquitted her on all of the indicted costs. She was convicted of drunk driving.
Prosecutors accused Learn of backing up into O’Keefe, her Boston Police officer boyfriend of two years, together with her SUV, leaving him to freeze and die on the entrance yard of the Canton dwelling then-owned by Brian Albert, a Boston Police colleague.
“Karen Read did not kill her then-boyfriend, Mr. O’Keefe,” the freshly filed civil grievance states. “Rather, in the early morning hours of January 29th, Mr. O’Keefe was killed in Defendants Brian and Nicole Albert’s home … in an altercation during a late-night house party with other Defendants … after a night of heavy drinking.”
“The House Defendants responsible for Mr. O’Keefe’s death – some of whom had professional experience with police investigations – concocted a plan immediately after the altercation to avoid culpability and to frame Karen Read,” the grievance continues.
The argument can also be the identical because the one which Learn’s protection has lined within the wrongful dying civil go well with that the O’Keefe household has filed in opposition to her in Plymouth Superior Court docket. Her attorneys pointed to the “third parties” in a September listening to.
A listening to within the wrongful dying civil go well with is scheduled for Friday in Plymouth.
