MA-Off Duty Officer (Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28) shot by police during armed confrontation at home

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Fiancé of North Andover police officer sought restraining order, feared she would kill their infant son, records show - The Boston Globe

A local police officer who was on administrative leave was shot during an “armed confrontation” with fellow officers who were serving her with a restraining order earlier this week.

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7/2/25

The fiancé of a North Andover police officer who was shot Monday in an armed confrontation with her fellow officers feared she would kill their infant son and take her own life, leading him to obtain a restraining order against her, records show.

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That warning proved prophetic. An Essex County Family and Probate judge issued the order at 4:31 p.m. Monday, records stated. About two hours later, three North Andover officers arrived at her home to deliver the court order.

When they did, Fitzsimmons, 28, engaged in an “armed confrontation” that ended when an officer shot her once in the chest at her North Andover home, authorities said. She was flown to a Boston hospital, where on Tuesday, she was listed as stable.

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Fitzsimmons gave birth Feb. 16 to the couple’s son, according to court records. On March 9, she was involuntarily committed for 12 hours for treatment of postpartum depression at Lowell General Hospital, according to court records.

 

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North Andover officer faces assault charges after fellow police shot her; attorney says police response was ‘botched’ - The Boston Globe

“Instead of de-escalation, she was met with deadly force,” said the attorney for Kelsey Fitzsimmons.

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7/11/25

Officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons “remains in grave condition,” said attorney Timothy Bradl, after she was shot in what authorities have described an “armed confrontation” with fellow officers at her North Andover home.

Fitzsimmons, who is a new mother, was “manifesting symptoms of postpartum depression at the time of the incident,” Bradl said in a statement Wednesday.

“She needed help. She needed compassion,” Bradl said. “What she got instead was gunfire and now, an appalling campaign to criminalize her in order to deflect accountability from the agency responsible for this botched response. Instead of de-escalation, she was met with deadly force.”

Fitzsimmons, 28, has been charged in Lawrence District Court with armed assault to murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection to the confrontation, court records show. An arraignment date has not been set, according to the clerk’s office.

 

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North Andover police officer wounded in armed confrontation with officers who were serving restraining order - The Boston Globe

An officer fired his weapon once, hitting Kelsey Fitzsimmons in the chest. She was flown to a Boston hospital, where she was listed as stable.

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7/1/25

NORTH ANDOVER — A local police officer who was on administrative leave and who gave birth in February was shot during an “armed confrontation” with fellow officers who were serving her with a restraining order on Monday, officials said.

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, was confronted by three North Andover officers who were delivering the restraining order, which required her to surrender any weapons she possessed, Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker said at a news conference Tuesday.

At some point, while the officers were in her home on Phillips Brooks Road around 6:30 p.m., an “armed confrontation” between Fitzsimmons and the officers took place, he said.

 

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Shooting of North Andover police officer puts spotlight on postpartum depression - The Boston Globe

Postpartum depression affects up to 15 percent of new mothers, according to medical specialists. Here's how to seek help.

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7/3/25

Court records show that Kelsey Fitzsimmons’ fiancé, a North Andover firefighter, obtained a restraining order against her Monday, fearing she could take her own life and that of their child.

Fitzsimmons was shot in the chest later that day in what authorities described as an “armed confrontation” as officers tried to deliver the restraining order at her North Andover home.

 

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Suspended North Andover police officer shot by colleagues issues first statement about alleged armed confrontation - The Boston Globe

The officer said that her colleagues had come to take custody of her newborn son and that she never pointed a gun at anyone but herself.

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7/18/25

A spokesperson for Essex District Attorney Paul F. Tucker said in a statement that more details of the allegations will be revealed during an arraignment.

“The facts in support of the charges that were issued out of Lawrence District Court will be detailed at the arraignment in open court,” the spokesperson said in an email to the Globe.

That hearing has not yet been scheduled.

 

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North Andover officer wounded in armed confrontation with police ordered held - The Boston Globe

Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28, pleaded not guilty to armed assault to murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in Lawrence District Court.

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8/8/25

A North Andover police officer who said she was diagnosed with postpartum depression months before she was shot in an armed confrontation with fellow officers who were delivering a restraining order was ordered held without bail at her arraignment Thursday.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28, pleaded not guilty to armed assault to murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon in Lawrence District Court, where she was ordered held pending trial for a period not to exceed 120 days, according to legal filings.

She was arraigned remotely, and her lawyer said in court papers that she “has been hospitalized, fighting for her life since June 30, 2025,” when she was shot in the chest.

 

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Police contradict account of injured North Andover officer, say she pointed gun at colleague who shot her in chest - The Boston Globe

A police report said Kelsey Fitzsimmons leveled a gun at a fellow officer and pulled the trigger, an allegation she has denied.

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8/12/25



A police report alleges that a North Andover police officer tried to shoot a fellow officer who was serving her a restraining order, contradicting her account that she never pointed a gun at anyone but herself.

Kelsey Fitzsimmons, who was seriously injured during an “armed confrontation” with fellow officers on June 30, allegedly leveled a gun at one of her colleagues and pulled the trigger without it firing, according to a police report.

The other officer said he knew in that moment “she was trying to kill him” and shot Fitzsimmons in the chest, according to the report.

 

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North Andover police officer shot by colleague returns to jail 3 days after release - The Boston Globe

Kelsey Fitzsimmons had been ordered to comply with alcohol testing, which her lawyers argued she could not do because of her injuries.

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Sept 11, 2025

After some 70 days in the hospital and jail, Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons on Monday was freed on personal recognizance in Essex Superior Court but was barred from seeing her infant son.

On Thursday, the same judge, Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman, reversed the order, vacating the terms of Fitzsimmons’s release and deeming her dangerous.
Fitzsimmons, 28, is now being held without bail at the Western Massachusetts Regional Women’s Correctional Center. Her next court date is Oct. 7.

Fitzsimmons had been ordered to comply with alcohol testing while she was out of jail by using a SCRAM device that required her to “blow intensely into a tube several times each test,” her lawyers wrote in an emergency motion filed Wednesday.

Fitzsimmons’s motion said she nearly died when she was shot in the chest on June 30 and could not complete the alcohol testing “without experiencing severe abdominal pain and dizziness.”

 

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North Andover police officer shot by colleague pleads not guilty, placed on house arrest - The Boston Globe

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, was arraigned in Essex Superior Court and entered a not guilty plea while flanked by two court officers.

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8/28/25

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, was arraigned in Essex Superior Court, where she pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon. She was indicted by a grand jury this week.

Fitzsimmons had been held without bail under the state’s dangerousness law. But Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman ruled that she can be released with a number of conditions, including house arrest, GPS monitoring, and living with relatives, until trial.

From the bench, the judge spoke directly to Fitzsimmons, telling her in a stern voice that she must not have any contact with her child, who was born Feb. 16. At the mention of her child, Fitzsimmons began to cry and was handed a handkerchief by a court officer.

 

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North Andover officer shot by colleague to be arraigned Thursday on assault with a dangerous weapon charge - The Boston Globe

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons allegedly pointed a pistol at an officer who had come to her home to serve a restraining order.

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8/27/25

Fitzsimmons was hospitalized after the shooting but has since recovered from her injuries and is being held in the Chicopee jail, records show.

Through her attorney, Timothy J. Bradl, Fitzsimmons denied aiming at Noonan, whom she described as a friend, and said she was pointing the gun at her own head.

In a statement, she acknowledged suffering from post-partum depression after the birth of her son in February.

The officers went to Fitzsimmons’s home to serve her with a restraining order obtained by her fiancé, the father of their child. Her fiancé said in court documents that Fitzsimmons had assaulted him and he feared she might kill their 4-month-old son “at any moment.”

The fiancé now has custody of the couple’s child and Fitzsimmons has not filed a response in Essex Probate and Family Court, records show.

 

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North Andover police officer shot by colleague released from custody - The Boston Globe

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons is charged with assault with a dangerous weapon.

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9/9/25

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons was freed on personal recognizance on Monday in Essex Superior Court, ending some 70 days she has been hospitalized and jailed since the June 30 incident in her North Andover home.

Fitzsimmons, 28, pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon, Aug. 28.
She was shot as fellow officers were serving her with a restraining order obtained by the child’s father, a North Andover firefighter, in Essex Probate and Family Court.

 

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North Andover officer shot by colleague set to remain in jail after SJC justice’s ruling - The Boston Globe

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons was let out of jail in September but a judge vacated her release just a few days later after her attorney raised concerns about the alcohol monitoring condition of her release.

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10/16/25



Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection to the June 30 shooting at her North Andover home, was released from custody in September after spending several weeks in the hospital and in jail.

But Essex Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman vacated her release just a few days later after her attorney raised concerns about an alcohol monitoring condition.
Lawyers for Fitzsimmons appealed the decision to the state Supreme Judicial Court, and Justice Elizabeth Dewar upheld McCarthy-Neyman’s order on Wednesday, concluding “the judge did not commit an error of law or otherwise abuse her discretion.”

Dewar also noted that Fitzsimmons could still request to be released if she can present information that was not known at the time of her September hearing in Essex Superior Court.

 

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SJC to consider North Andover officer’s appeal to be released from jail while awaiting trial - The Boston Globe

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection to the June 30 shooting at her North Andover home

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11/4/25

The state Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to review a North Andover police officer’s appeal of an order that landed her in jail, as she awaits trial in connection to a confrontation last summer when she was shot by a colleague.

Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, 28, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon for the June 30 shooting at her North Andover home, was released from custody in September after spending several weeks in the hospital and in jail.

She returned to jail just days later, when Essex Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman vacated her release after her attorney raised concerns about an alcohol monitoring condition. A single justice of the state’s highest court upheld that ruling last month.

 

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Lawyers for North Andover police officer blast judge’s decision returning her to jail as ‘indefensible’ - The Boston Globe

The Supreme Judicial Court has agreed to hear the appeal of Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons, who was shot this summer in a confrontation with her fellow officers.

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11/12/25

Lawyers for a North Andover police officer who was shot by a colleague in a confrontation at her home last summer decried a judge’s recent decision to send her back to jail as “chilling, heartless, and legally baseless.”

“The trial court’s actions are indefensible,” her attorneys wrote in a brief filed Monday with the Supreme Judicial Court, which has agreed to hear her appeal. “The decisions abuse the concept of dangerousness.”

 

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Trial for North Andover officer shot by colleague set for February - The Boston Globe

Kelsey Fitzsimmons has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon.

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11/25/25

Judge Thomas Drechsler set a Feb. 9 trial date for Fitzsimmons, who has pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault with a dangerous weapon in connection with the June 30 incident.

 

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SJC urged to bar judge from future hearings on North Andover officer who was shot by colleague - The Boston Globe

Lawyers for Kelsey E. Fitzsimmons asked the state's highest court to send the case back to Essex Superior Court before a different judge.

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12/4/25

The Superior Court judge who jailed a suspended North Andover police officer acted illegally and should be barred from any future role in the case, her attorneys said in a legal brief to the Supreme Judicial Court

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Fitzsimmons spent 53 days in a hospital and was released on home confinement Sept 8 by Essex Superior Court Judge Kathleen McCarthy-Neyman. The judge also barred her from having contact with her infant son.

But she reversed herself three days later after lawyers for Fitzsimmons, 28, said her injuries prevented her from complying with an alcohol testing that was a condition of her release.

Without that condition, McCarthy-Neyman ruled that the court could not “ensure the safety of the community” and ordered Fitzsimmons back to custody.

 

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SJC denies bail to North Andover police officer shot by colleague after allegedly drawing gun on him - The Boston Globe

Kelsey Fitzsimmons was shot in June as officers served her with a restraining order obtained by her child's father.

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12/22/25

The state’s highest court on Monday upheld a lower court order denying bail to Kelsey Fitzsimmons, a North Andover police officer who was shot in June after allegedly pointing a gun at a colleague when he arrived at her home to serve a restraining order.

In a 10-page ruling, the Supreme Judicial Court said Fitzsimmons had argued that a lower court judge improperly ordered her held in custody because she couldn’t comply with mandatory alcohol breath testing while on bail, due to injuries she sustained in the shooting.

Her attorneys, the ruling said, had suggested urine testing as a viable alternative for the condition that she abstain from alcohol, but traveling to the testing site would violate the order that she remain on home confinement while the case is pending.

“We conclude that the hearing judge did not abuse her discretion in denying the request and detaining Fitzsimmons,” the ruling said. “After the August 28 dangerousness hearing, the hearing judge appropriately imposed the conditions restricting Fitzsimmons’s release, including the SCRAM [breath test] requirement.”

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SALEM, Mass. —
North Andover police officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons returned to court on Tuesday, where her trial date was set for Feb. 9.
Trial date set for police officer accused of pointing gun at colleague

Top Mass. court denies North Andover officer's bail request

 

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Ex-Police Officer Who Allegedly Pointed Gun at Colleague Appears in Court

Ex-cop Kelsey Fitzsimmons, who allegedly pointed a weapon at a colleague while were serving a restraining order, makes a court appearance.

www.courttv.com

12/22/25

 

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Top Mass. court denies North Andover officer's bail request

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court will consider Kelsey Fitzsimmons’ appeal of the order that landed her back in jail in mid-September.

www.nbcboston.com

12/22/25