Cop Shoots Cop — And the Officer Who Was Shot Is the One on Trial

Kelsey Fitzsimmons is a North Andover, Massachusetts police officer who was shot in the chest by a fellow officer at her own home in June 2025 — and she's the one facing criminal charges. Her trial on assault with a dangerous weapon begins March 23, and today she waived her right to a jury trial, placing her fate entirely in a judge's hands. The circumstances of the case are genuinely contested. Officers say Fitzsimmons pointed her service weapon at them when they arrived to serve a restraining order obtained by her fiancé and remove her infant son. Fitzsimmons says she pointed the gun at herself — that she was in the grip of a postpartum mental health crisis and was trying to take her own life. There is no footage of the moment the gun was raised. Her legal team alleges her ex-fiancé subsequently broke into her home while she was hospitalized and allegedly stole money and personal records — and that prosecutors have declined to charge him. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke walk a new audience through every layer of this case and take on the questions that get to the heart of it: about mental health, about the system, about accountability, and about what justice looks like when the facts are this disputed.

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