Blue on Blue: Kelsey Fitsimmons and the Cop-on-Cop Shooting
About this episode
This episode explores the complex and controversial cop-on-cop shooting involving Officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons and the subsequent trial that divided a police department.
On June 30, 2025, officers from the North Andover Police Department in Massachusetts responded to what should have been a routine domestic call at the home of one of their own. Twenty-nine-year-old Officer Kelsey Fitzsimmons —on maternity leave with her four-month-old son—was being served a restraining order filed by her ex-fiancé amid a heated custody dispute. Moments after the officers entered, the situation exploded. Fellow officer Patrick Noonan drew his weapon and fired twice, striking Fitzsimmons in the chest. She survived, but the aftermath ignited a firestorm: Was Fitzsimmons, claiming a mental-health crisis and postpartum struggles, attempting suicide by pointing the gun at herself? Or did she turn the weapon on a fellow cop and pull the trigger first, as Noonan and prosecutors alleged? In this Exposed: Investigates episode, Jim unpacks the dramatic bench trial that gripped Essex County, the conflicting eyewitness accounts, the absence of body-camera footage, and the raw questions about police training, mental health support, and what happens when the thin blue line turns inward. From the tense moments inside that bedroom to the judge’s stunning verdict, this is the…
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