The first week of Karen Read’s murder trial came to a close Friday. Here’s what happened.

In addition to further witness testimony Friday, jurors took a field trip to view the crime scene.

On the stand:

• Jason Becker, Canton Fire Department

After Becker testified Friday afternoon, Judge Beverly Cannone concluded the day’s session. Testimony will continue Monday with a full day scheduled.

• Daniel Whitley, Canton Fire Department
• Gregory Woodbury, Canton Fire Department
• Katie McLaughlin, Canton Fire Department

4:15 p.m. update: Read told paramedics she had gotten into an argument with O’Keefe, firefighter says

Karen Read was upset that the last words she had said to John O’Keefe were allegedly in the context of an argument, Canton firefighter and paramedic Jason Becker testified.

Prosecutor Adam Lally asked Becker what Read told first responders about the last time she had spoken with O’Keefe.

“She had said that they had gotten into an argument,” Becker replied. “She was sad because that was the last thing she had said to him, was the argument. But she didn’t go into detail about what the argument was about or what was said.”

Becker also testified that Read indicated she had no plan to act on the alleged suicidal statements that resulted in a Section 12 order for her mental health evaluation.

In the ambulance to Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton, “she would have periods of calmness, and then other periods she would appear agitated because she didn’t want to go to the hospital,” Becker said. “But all in all, she was cooperative with us.”

He said Read was also asking, “‘Could he [O’Keefe] be dead? Could he be dead?’ And she said, ‘Could I have hit him?’”

Becker testified that he asked Read if she had consumed any drugs or alcohol as part of his initial assessment and said she denied doing so.

On cross-examination, defense attorney David Yannetti clarified whether Becker had specified a time period in his question about drugs and alcohol.

“You would agree that she did tell you at some point that she had had alcohol the night before, correct?” Yannetti asked.

“No,” Becker replied.

However, Yannetti noted that Becker previously told Massachusetts State Police in 2022 that Read did say she consumed alcohol the night prior.

3 p.m. update: Read’s mood fluctuated on the ride to the hospital, firefighter says

Canton firefighter and paramedic Daniel Whitley said first responders had a Section 12 order to take Read to the hospital for a mental health evaluation after she “made threats against her life, saying, ‘I don’t want to live anymore if my husband [sic] dies. I don’t want to be alive anymore.’”

However, he testified that firefighters felt her statements were “more in the lines of a normal grieving process after something traumatic happens to a loved one.”

Read allegedly asked if someone could live after staying out in the snow for several hours without a jacket, and Whitley said firefighters tried to “give her any hope” by telling her about hypothermia cases where patients were successfully revived.

He said Read’s emotions fluctuated throughout their interaction.

“There would be episodes where she would, like, go from crying in her hands to all of a sudden perking up,” Whitley testified. “She was crying about having to take care of kids, saying she couldn’t do it. And I was saying, ‘You can do this. It’s not as hard as it seems.’ She kept saying, ‘I can’t take care of these kids; they’re not my kids, and they’re not his kids.’”

He said that’s when he figured out that the person in the first ambulance to leave from 34 Fairview Road was John O’Keefe, who was well known around town for taking custody of his niece and nephew after their parents died.

“I was saying, ‘Well, it seems like you have a good, strong support system, people who came and helped you in a blizzard to help find your husband,’” Whitley recalled.

He said Read asked him if he knew Kerry Roberts, O’Keefe’s longtime friend and one of the two women who accompanied Read that morning on her search for her missing boyfriend.

“I said I did,” Whitley testified. “She said, ‘Anybody who knows Kerry Roberts wouldn’t say those things.’ And that kind of took me aback a bit. It seemed strange to say something like that after you were just crying because your husband was dead.”

At the hospital later, Read was “giving the nurses a hard time” about having to dress in a hospital gown and give a urine sample, he said.

2:30 p.m. update: Read resisted going to the hospital for a psychiatric evaluation, Fire Lt. testifies

Karen Read was “resistant” to going to the hospital for a mental health evaluation under a Section 12 order, Canton Fire Lt. Greg Woodbury testified.

“For a Section 12, that’s when someone has made threats to harm themselves or others,” he explained. “So I just had to judge her mental ability at the time and see if she was a threat to us and how much of a threat she was to herself.”

He said Read’s behavior was “very up and down.”

“It was a repetitive conversation with her,” Woodbury testified. “She was obviously experiencing a lot of different emotions. Her emotional state was all over the place.”

According to Woodbury, Read kept asking, “Is he dead? Is he dead?”

First responders are required to transport someone to the hospital for evaluation once they are subject to a written Section 12 order, he said.

Paramedics attempted to convince Read to go to the hospital voluntarily, Woodbury explained, because patients are typically released quicker if they go of their own free will than if they are forced.

11:30 a.m. update: Jury heads over to Canton to view crime scene

Following Canton firefighter and paramedic Katie McLaughlin’s testimony, Judge Beverly Cannone walked jurors through the logistics of their field trip to view the crime scene at 34 Fairview Road. The jury won’t be allowed to take notes or photographs during the view, and spectators and members of the press are ordered to stay 100 yards away at all times.

Assistant District Attorney Adam Lally asked jurors to take note of street names, homes, the roadway, and distances between landmarks, among other details.

In requesting the view, prosecutors also announced their plans to tow Read’s Lexus SUV to the street in front of 34 Fairview Road for jurors’ inspection. Lally asked jurors to pay attention to the vehicle’s size, exterior, and interior center console.

Jackson largely echoed Lally’s remarks.

“There’s nothing magical about this other than it gives you perspective,” he told jurors. “It’s an opportunity to introduce you in three-dimensional form to stuff you’ve been seeing in two-dimensional form.”

11:15 a.m. update: Karen Read’s defense team attempts to link witness to homeowner’s family

Defense attorney Alan Jackson grilled Canton firefighter and paramedic Katie McLaughlin on her relationship with Caitlin Albert, whose family owned the home where O’Keefe’s body was found. Read’s lawyers have repeatedly attempted to tie homeowner Brian Albert and his family into their theory that O’Keefe was beaten inside 34 Fairview Road, rather than struck by Read’s car.

“Ms. McLaughlin, who’s Caitlin Albert?” Jackson asked.

“I went to high school with somebody named Caitlin Albert,” McLaughlin replied.

Jackson asked if the two women were friends.

“I would say more acquaintances, not close friends,” McLaughlin answered, later adding, “I would say that we have mutual friends, so we might see each other occasionally because of mutual friends, but we don’t have a one-on-one friendship or hang out regularly.”

“Who’s her dad?” Jackson continued, prompting pushback from prosecutors.

“I don’t know,” McLaughlin said.

Following prosecutors’ objections, lawyers on both sides spoke briefly with Judge Beverly Cannone, who sent McLaughlin out of the courtroom while attorneys conferred over several documents.

Over further objections from prosecutors, Read’s lawyers sought to introduce four exhibits documenting McLaughlin’s relationship with Caitlin Albert, including photos of the two women together. Cannone allowed lawyers on both sides to question McLaughlin about the photos without jurors present.

During that time, McLaughlin confirmed that she’s friends with Albert on social media and has known her since high school, or roughly a decade. However, she denied knowing Albert’s family and said she didn’t recall ever visiting Albert’s house.

Jackson showed McLaughlin multiple photos of herself and Albert with a group of people, but McLaughlin said she didn’t recall when or where the photos were taken. She further stated it has “probably been a few years” since she last talked to Albert and said she didn’t know 34 Fairview Road belonged to Albert’s family when she responded to a call there on Jan. 29, 2022.

“As far as each of those photos you were shown, you’re present in a photo with Caitlin Albert in a much larger group, correct?” prosecutor Adam Lally clarified.

“Yes,” McLaughlin confirmed.

“Have you ever hung out or socialized with Caitlin Albert outside of the setting of a large group?” Lally continued.

“No,” she answered.

Cannone allowed lawyers to question McLaughlin about her relationship with Albert before the jury, though she blocked Jackson from showing the photos of the two women together. The judge later shot down Jackson’s request to reconsider her ruling, arguing that the photos showed McLaughlin’s alleged “bastardization of the truth” regarding the nature of her friendship with Albert and therefore should be admissible.

In another line of questioning, Lally confirmed that McLaughlin had previously responded to emergency calls regarding places or patients she knew beforehand.

“And would that be a reason for you to not go on a call?” he asked.

“No,” McLaughlin replied.

“As far as when you’re on duty as a firefighter at a particular station house and you get a call, what, if any, choice do you have to respond to any particular call?” Lally continued.

“I don’t have a choice,” she answered. “I just have to respond to the call.”

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The first week of

’s high-profile murder trial comes to a close Friday with additional witness testimony and a field trip to view the crime scene in Canton.

Friday’s session is expected to pick up with testimony from Canton firefighter and paramedic Katie McLaughlin, who took the stand Thursday to share some of the things she saw and heard as first responders tended to Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe on Jan. 29, 2022.

Prosecutors allege that earlier that morning, Read, 44, backed her SUV into O’Keefe, her boyfriend of two years, and left him to die in a blizzard. The couple had gone out drinking, and Read is accused of driving drunk and striking O’Keefe while dropping him off at an afterparty held at a fellow Boston police officer’s home.

But lawyers for the Mansfield woman say she was framed, that O’Keefe was actually beaten inside the home and possibly attacked by the family’s German shepherd, and that witnesses and law enforcement engaged in a widespread coverup.

Several first responders have testified they heard Read say “I hit him” after they arrived at 34 Fairview Road on Jan. 29, 2022. On Thursday, McLaughlin and acting Canton Fire Lt. Anthony Flematti both testified that Read uttered the phrase repeatedly as paramedics attempted to ask her questions about O’Keefe.

However, other witnesses who were at the scene that morning say they didn’t hear Read say “I hit him.” While Canton firefighter Matthew Kelly told the court he heard Read screaming upon his arrival, he testified that she said something along the lines of, “He’s dead. He’s f—ing dead.”