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North Andover Officials to Hold Briefing on Officer-on-Officer Shooting

Essex County DA and state police investigators will outline known facts of a rare armed confrontation that wounded an off-duty officer

North Andover shooting: Female off-duty officer shot by cop at her Massachusetts home during ‘armed confrontation’ (Unsplash - representational image)

Overview

  • At about 6:30 p.m. Monday, an on-duty North Andover officer shot an off-duty colleague during a court-order service at her Phillips Brooks Road residence
  • The confrontation occurred across from an elementary school and left the off-duty officer and one other person injured
  • Firefighters provided on-scene medical aid before the wounded officer was airlifted to a Boston-area hospital and declared likely to survive
  • Essex County District Attorney Paul F. Tucker and Massachusetts State Police agents have opened a joint investigation into the rare intra-department shooting
  • Officials will present preliminary findings at a 10 a.m. Tuesday press conference at North Andover police headquarters