Overview
- An Essex Superior Court judge approved release to her mother’s home in Methuen following a home check, with conditions including GPS monitoring, 24/7 house arrest for medical exceptions only, no alcohol, no firearms, and no contact with her child.
- She had been jailed since September after her earlier release was revoked when her gunshot injuries prevented compliance with SCRAM breath testing.
- The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court a day earlier upheld the lower court’s SCRAM requirement and prior detention, leaving alcohol testing as a condition for any release.
- Fitzsimmons has pleaded not guilty to armed assault with intent to murder and two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, and her trial is scheduled for Feb. 9 in Essex Superior Court.
- Prosecutors say she pointed a pistol at Officer Patrick Noonan and pulled the trigger once during the June 30 restraining-order service; she maintains the gun was at her own head and never aimed at anyone.