A Boston-area lady has been charged with second-degree homicide within the loss of life of her boyfriend, a police officer who was discovered dying in a snowstorm after she allegedly ran over him along with her automotive.
Karen Learn, 42, was additionally indicted Thursday for motorized vehicle murder and leaving the scene of a collision inflicting loss of life, in line with the Norfolk District Legal professional’s workplace.
Learn had initially been charged with manslaughter and had been free on $50,000 bail since Feb. 2. After the indictment, she was taken into custody at her Mansfield house on Thursday and is predicted to be arraigned Friday.
The costs end result from the loss of life on Jan. 29 of her boyfriend, John O’Keefe, 46.
Earlier than daybreak that morning, throughout a strong nor’easter storm, O’Keefe was discovered mendacity in a snowbank exterior a pal’s house in Canton. He was pronounced useless at a hospital shortly afterward. He had a extreme head damage and was additionally affected by hypothermia.
A number of hours earlier, round 12:30 a.m., Learn had dropped him off on the pal’s house after the couple had been at a bar. She informed investigators she had not been feeling nicely, so she went house by herself. When she later was not capable of contact O’Keefe by telephone, she had mates drive her to the Canton house. There they discovered O’Keefe within the snowbank, unconscious and bleeding from the nostril and mouth.
When paramedics arrived, the distraught Learn informed them, “I hit him, I hit him, I hit him,” Norfolk prosecutor Adam Lally mentioned.
Boston TV station WBZ reported that house surveillance video confirmed that Learn backed into O’Keefe along with her Lexus SUV whereas making a three-point flip after which drove away.
The 2 had been relationship for 2 years.
O’Keefe was a 16-year veteran of the Boston Police Division. He was elevating his sister’s youngsters, whom he adopted after they have been orphaned. On the time of her arrest, Learn was a finance teacher at Bentley College in Waltham, Mass., and a researcher for Constancy Investments.