Family of slain Boston cop John O'Keefe fumes as ex-girlfriend Karen Read walks free: 'Sickening'

The family of Boston Police Officer John O'Keefe killed on Jan during a blizzard is still searching for justice this week days after jurors cleared his ex-girlfriend Karen Read of homicide charges Read will serve a year of probation for drunken driving but was not guilty of second-degree murder manslaughter and fleeing the scene of a deadly accident The only way that we would have discovered specific kind of peace in this would ve been a guilty verdict Vanessa Rizzitano O'Keefe's cousin and a former Boston journalist informed the outlet SPECIAL PROSECUTOR WARNS KAREN READ SUPPORTERS' BEHAVIOR IS ANTITHESIS OF JUSTICE She disclosed that an eruption of cheers from Read's supporters outside the courthouse made her sick to her stomach and Read's claim moments later that no one had fought harder for justice for John O'Keefe enraged the family Hearing those words come out of her mouth literally was sickening Rizzitano described the station Read repeated the claim at a celebratory dinner with her family and legal association hours later KAREN READ'S LAWYERS IDENTIFY EXACT MOMENT PROSECUTION 'LOST THE CASE' IN MURDER TRIAL No The prosecution his family his loved ones including myself were the ones that fought the hardest for Johnny Rizzitano mentioned Not you GET REAL-TIME UPDATES DIRECTLY ON THE TRUE CRIME HUBJurors spent four days deliberating after hearing more than days of testimony in her retrial on the charges Last year a deadlocked jury resulted in a mistrial at the end of her first proceeding Special prosecutor Hank Brennan a high-profile defense attorney urged to lead the event after last year's hung jury explained Fox News Digital Monday that he was disappointed with the verdict and the fact that we could not achieve justice for John O'Keefe SIGN UP TO GET TRUE CRIME NEWSLETTERFOLLOW THE FOX TRUE CRIME SQUAD ON X After an independent and thorough review of all the evidence I concluded that the evidence led to one person and only one person he announced Neither the closed federal assessment nor my independent review led me to identify any other viable suspect or person responsible for the death of John O Keefe Prosecutors alleged that Read backed her Lexus LX SUV into O'Keefe outside a house party and fled the scene after a night of drinking She came back with two other women nearly six hours later and detected him unresponsive on the ground Police missteps including the firing of a lead investigator sloppy work at the scene and a disputed chain of custody for key evidence left plenty of reasonable doubt for jurors The defense argued that something else caused O'Keefe's injuries and denied a collision ever happened