Paramedic, crime lab technician testify in Karen Read retrial

DEDHAM, Mass. (WLNE) — On Monday, jurors heard from a crime lab technician, as well as a paramedic who was one the first responders called to Fairview Road the night John O’Keefe was found.

Defense lawyer David Yanetti started the day cross-examining the technician.

He asked questions about the way evidence was preserved at Good Samaritan Hospital in Brockton, where John O’Keefe was taken to be treated.

Canton paramedic Katie McLaughlin also took the stand, recalling the moments she arrived at the crime scene and what she heard Karen Read saying repeatedly.

“I asked if there had been a significant trauma that preceded this, and she answered with a series of statements that she repeated, ‘I hit him. I hit him,'” McLaughlin said. “And a police officer asked her, ‘You what?’ She repeated it again, ‘I hit him.'”

According to Boston TV station WCVB, Sarah Levinson, who visited the Albert’s house, testified there were no arguments or fights in the house that night, and she didn’t see anything suspicious in the yard when she left.