Blue on Blue: Kelsey Fitsimmons and the Cop-on-Cop Shooting
Exposed: Scandalous Files of the Elite
Envision Podcast Productions: Jim Chapman
4.7 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2026
⏱️ 67 minutes
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Summary
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 full, unflinching story of a cop-on-cop shooting that no one saw coming—and the verdict that left an entire department divided.
Timestamps
01:29 Kelsey's Early Life
11:28 The Impact of Tragedy
12:24 Struggles with Mental Health
13:25 A Troubling Party
15:15 The Restraining Order
18:20 The Day of the Incident
24:32 Officer Noonan's Perspective
32:45 Kelsey's Perspective
41:15 Aftermath of the Shooting
1:00:17 Justin's Actions Post-Incident
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, everyone. |
| 0:03.0 | Hi, everyone. Hey everyone, welcome back. |
| 0:26.0 | I'm bringing you an exposed original series episode today, and it centers around a 29-year-old North Andover, Massachusetts police officer by the name of Kelsey Fitzsimmons. |
| 0:39.8 | Now, in June of 2025, Kelsey was shot by a fellow officer of that same department by the name |
| 0:47.9 | of Patrick Noonan as he was serving her a restraining order filed by her ex-fiance, who was an area firefighter. |
| 0:56.7 | Now, Officer Noonan's side of that story was, Officer Fitzsimmons drew her weapon upon being |
| 1:03.7 | served this summons. |
| 1:05.7 | She aimed that weapon at Noonan and pulled the trigger. |
| 1:09.3 | However, she didn't chamber it, which caused him to |
| 1:12.6 | defend himself and shoot her in the chest. Now, Fitzsimmons says she suffered from postpartum |
| 1:18.2 | depression and was having a mental health episode and actually was attempting to shoot herself. |
| 1:24.5 | We're going to break it all down today as well as what led up to all of this. |
| 1:29.9 | So let's get into it. And this is going to be a story, y'all, where everything is not as it |
| 1:35.5 | appears in the beginning. So I'm going to start this one off by telling you a little about Kelsey |
| 1:41.9 | Fitzsimmons. Now, Kelsey was born and raised in Mathune, Massachusetts. |
| 1:47.8 | She grew up splitting time with both of her parents. They were divorced, but her upbringing was |
| 1:53.8 | typical outside of that. And even though her parents were divorced, they both took care of her, |
| 2:00.0 | and it was kind of a loving thing on both sides. |
| 2:03.0 | Now, according to some of her friends, Kelsey did have some struggles growing up. |
| 2:08.3 | She had some what you would classify as mental health issues and alcohol issues, |
| 2:14.0 | experimenting with alcohol, etc. But nothing that would be noted as serious. And in 2015, |
| 2:20.6 | she graduates from Mathune High School and attends Fisher College in Massachusetts. And it was |
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