Karen Read denies noticing confrontation between deceased boyfriend and ATF agent hours before death

Shortly aft her lawyers played video that appeared to amusement the precocious John O'Keefe and ATF Agent Brian Higgins gesturing aggressively astatine 1 different successful a barroom successful Canton, Massachusetts, Karen Read told reporters she wasn't paying attraction to the interaction.

"The video speaks for itself," she said connected her mode to a waiting SUV connected Thursday. Read is connected proceedings for the 2nd clip successful the January 2022 execution of her boyfriend, O'Keefe, a Boston constabulary officer.

"Do you deliberation John and Brian Higgins were astatine odds?" a newsman asked her.

"It appears that way," Read replied. "It appears that way."

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Karen Read arrives astatine Norfolk County Superior Court successful Dedham, Mass., connected May 20, 2025. (Hans Pennink for Fox News Digital)

"Did you prime up connected that, though?" the newsman pressed. "I mean, you were with John each night. Were they fighting? Did it look similar they were astatine each other's throats astatine all?"

"I was not paying attention," Read replied. "As you tin see, if you ticker the afloat magnitude of the Waterfall [Waterfall Bar and Grille] betwixt the 2 trials, I was beauteous overmuch successful that spot with [witness] Karina [Kolokithas]. We were determination for astir 90 minutes."

This representation shows Brian Higgins and John O'Keefe astatine the Waterfall Bar and Grille successful Canton, Mass., connected Jan. 28, 2022. (Pool)

"So you didn't announcement that?" the newsman asked.

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"I didn't prime up connected it," she said. 

John O'Keefe (Courtesy of Karen Read)

Read was talking astir Karina Kolokithas, a witnesser for the defence who was contiguous astatine the Waterfall Bar and Grille successful Canton successful the hours earlier O'Keefe was past seen alive. 

Kolokithas testified that she saw a strange interaction betwixt Jennifer McCabe, whose brother-in-law owns the location wherever O'Keefe would aboriginal beryllium recovered dead, and Read arsenic they were leaving, but she did not accidental thing astir a combat betwixt Higgins and O'Keefe.

"This is precisely wherefore she shouldn’t speech astir the case," said David Gelman, a Philadelphia-area defence lawyer and erstwhile authoritative who has warned for months that Read's nationalist commentary could wounded her astatine trial. "The prosecution volition surely usage this."

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Karina Kolokithas listens connected the witnesser basal during Karen Read's execution proceedings connected June 4, 2025. (Pool)

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On the different hand, Read appears connected the video speaking with Kolokithas astatine length, arsenic she told reporters.

"She was having a large speech with Kolokithas," said Grace Edwards, a Massachusetts proceedings lawyer who is besides pursuing the case.

Read, O'Keefe, Higgins and respective different radical who attended an after-party astatine the adjacent location wherever the Boston constabulary serviceman would aboriginal beryllium recovered dormant were seen connected surveillance video astatine the barroom arsenic it was closing for the night.

Brian Higgins, center, is seen gesturing successful John O'Keefe's (not pictured) absorption astatine the Waterfall Bar and Grille successful Canton, Mass., connected Jan. 28, 2022. (Pool)

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An enactment played successful tribunal that took spot connected their mode retired appears to amusement Higgins gesturing toward O'Keefe from crossed the country and different man, identified arsenic Chris Albert, grabbing his arm.

It happened little than an hr earlier she is accused of sidesplitting O'Keefe by striking him with the backmost country of her Lexus SUV and leaving him to dice connected the crushed successful a blizzard extracurricular Albert's brother's location astatine 34 Fairview Road.

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Read's defence has denied her conveyance deed him and has been inviting witnesser grounds to exemplify different imaginable causes for his injuries, including a imaginable combat with Higgins, who was not charged with a transgression but was carrying connected a flirtatious narration with Read down O'Keefe's back.

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Prosecutors person alleged that investigators recovered from O'Keefe's apparel taillight pieces that matched the Lexus.

Multiple witnesses testified that aft his remains were recovered connected Jan. 29, 2022, Read repeated the operation "I deed him. I deed him. I deed him."