The Fitzsimmons Case — When the System That's Supposed to Help Becomes the Threat

She was a police officer. She had a baby. She was hospitalized for postpartum depression. She surrendered her weapons. And then, months later, her own colleagues showed up at her door to take her son and serve a restraining order obtained by the man she was engaged to — and one of them shot her. Now she's the defendant. Kelsey Fitzsimmons goes to trial March 23 in Lawrence, Massachusetts — and as of today, she's waived her right to a jury. A single judge will decide her fate. In this listener Q&A, Tony Brueski and retired FBI Behavioral Analysis Chief Robin Dreeke take on the questions this case demands: how does someone end up shot in their own home by a colleague during a mental health crisis and come out of it as the person charged with a crime? What does the decision to go judge-only tell you about her defense strategy? And what does Robin make of the systemic failures that put everyone in that situation on June 30th, 2025 — because whatever the truth is about who the gun was pointed at, something went deeply wrong long before that moment.

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