The Boston police officer who owned the property where John O’Keefe was found dead during a blizzard in January 2022 said he would have “taken a bullet” for his former colleague in a televised interview just days after jurors found the suspected killer, Karen Read, not guilty.

Brian Albert’s sister-in-law, Jennifer McCabe, woke him up after she, Read and another woman found O’Keefe unresponsive in the yard around 6 a.m. on Jan. 29, 2022.

“By the time I came downstairs, the police were already in my house, John was already gone, [and] there was nobody to save,” Albert told ABC News Friday. “I would’ve taken a bullet for John O’Keefe.”

After a trial that stretched on for more than 30 days, and four days of deliberation, jurors found Read not guilty of all homicide-related charges. They convicted her only of drunken driving, for which she will serve a year on probation.

Brian Albert testifies during Karen Read’s first trial at Norfolk County Superior Court, Friday, May 10, 2024, in Dedham, Mass. That trial ended with a deadlocked jury. She was found not guilty of murder after her second trial, which ended this week. (AP Photo/Charles Krupa, Pool)

After the trial, her defense hinted that whoever did O’Keefe has eluded investigators, who were faulted for a sloppy investigation and missed protocols at trial, in an audit, and through internal reviews.

“Somebody is still out there, and it’s a shame that this investigation was not done in the proper way so that they could have gotten to the truth,” David Yannetti, one of her defense attorneys, told reporters Thursday.