Fitzsimmons Trial: Officer Shot by Police — Was It Suicide or an Attack?

A police officer is shot in her own home by a colleague. She survives. She says she was trying to kill herself. He says she tried to kill him. No cameras were rolling. Trial starts this week.

The Kelsey Fitzsimmons case out of North Andover, Massachusetts is one of the most genuinely contested criminal trials of 2026 — and True Crime Today has everything you need to understand it before that jury comes back with a verdict.

Fitzsimmons, a North Andover officer, was served a restraining order by three of her own colleagues on June 30, 2025. The order had been obtained by her fiancé, North Andover firefighter Justin Aylaian, who alleged in a sworn affidavit that he feared she would harm their four-month-old son. What unfolded in her upstairs bedroom ended with Officer Patrick Noonan firing one shot that collapsed her lung, broke her ribs, and damaged her liver.

Noonan says she pointed the gun at him and pulled the trigger. Fitzsimmons says she pointed it at her own head.

There is no body camera footage to resolve it.

What makes this case demand serious attention: both versions are supported by documented evidence. Fitzsimmons had been involuntarily committed for postpartum depression three months earlier. The department took her guns — then cleared her and gave them back twelve days before the shooting. The grand jury heard the prosecution's full case and still refused to indict her on the top charge.

And three days after she was shot, surveillance cameras at her home allegedly captured her fiancé — the man whose affidavit started everything — walking through her front door while she was hospitalized. The DA declined to prosecute him. He's on the prosecution's witness list.

Trial begins March 23rd. This is the full story — both sides, all facts, no spin.

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