The Karen Read murder case has been in the national spotlight for months, and a former Patriots player says the ongoing trial at Norfolk County Superior Court “hits home.”

Kyle Van Noy, a two-time Super Bowl Champion with the Patriots who now plays in Baltimore, lived a “couple blocks away” from 34 Fairview Road in Canton, the property where John O’Keefe’s body was found covered in snow the morning of Jan. 29, 2022.

While no longer in New England, Van Noy took to X on Thursday to express his thoughts on the case.

“Yooo I’m all caught up in the Karen read case in Massachusetts,” Van Noy said in a post, “because I lived in canton mass so it hits home! This is a wild case! Feel so bad for the o’Keefe kids!! Is the canton police settin this up or what? Sketchy sketchy info so far!…… GO Celtics btw!”

The trial just wrapped its sixth week of testimony – 21 days in total – and Judge Beverly Cannone told jurors on Thursday that they will get the case for deliberations “sometime the last week of June.”

Read, 44, of Mansfield, faces charges of second-degree murder, motor vehicle manslaughter and leaving the scene of a collision causing the death of O’Keefe, a 16-year Boston Police officer when he died at age 46.

Prosecutors say that she struck O’Keefe with her SUV following a drunken argument and left him to die in a snowstorm in front of 34 Fairview. Defense attorneys counter that outside actors killed O’Keefe and conspired with state and local police to frame Read for his murder.

Van Noy interacted with followers who responded to his post and took shots at investigators, saying O’Keefe “needs his justice.”

“I’m keeping my fingers crossed,” someone wrote to Van Noy, with the former Patriot responding, “Me too!! Like the officers involved! What are we doing?!?!?! We picked up evidence with a grocery bag?!?”

Van Noy was referencing how Canton Police Lt. Paul Gallagher testified on the fifth day of testimony, May 6, that investigators put a set of red SOLO plastic cups into a Stop & Shop grocery bag as they collected evidence.

The SOLO cups contained snow that had O’Keefe’s blood on it, Gallagher testified.

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After the Patriots released Van Noy in March 2022, the veteran linebacker put his 6,510-square-foot home on Bullens Way in Canton, listed at nearly $2.7 million, on the market.

His former address is just over a mile away from 34 Fairview Road.

Van Noy later responded to an X follower: “I lived a couple blocks away from where this happened! Crazy! (Too) many like WTF moments in the investigation!”

The case will resume on Monday at 9 a.m. and will see full days of testimony every day of the week except for Tuesday, when court will be off.

Former New England Patriots middle linebacker Kyle Van Noy says the Karen Read murder trial “hits home.” (Herald file photo)