An off-duty Massachusetts police officer was shot and wounded in a confrontation with a fellow cop who was trying to serve her with a restraining order.
North Andover officer and new mom Kelsey Fitzsimmons, 28, was shot once when three officers arrived at her home Monday evening to present her with a restraining order, Essex County District Attorney Paul Tucker said during a news conference Tuesday.
“When one of the officers was escorting Ms. Fitzsimmons during the service of the court order, an armed confrontation took place,” Tucker told reporters.
“As a result of that armed confrontation, one of the responding officers discharged their weapon, which struck Ms. Fitzsimmons once.”
Fitzsimmons got engaged late last year and has a baby boy, according to her social media.
She has a degree in criminal justice and has served with the North Andover Police Department for about a year and a half.