A North Andover police officer shot by a colleague in late June was released from jail Monday after months of medical treatment and several weeks behind bars. But by Thursday, 28-year-old Kelsey Fitzsimmons was back in jail after a judge vacated the terms of her release and deemed her dangerous.

The order came after lawyers for Fitzsimmons told an Essex Superior Court judge during a Thursday hearing that she could not complete required alcohol testing without severe pain due to her injuries from being shot.

As a condition of her release, Fitzsimmons was ordered to use a SCRAM alcohol testing device that required her to “blow intensely into a tube several times each test,” her lawyers wrote in a motion filed Wednesday.

But Fitzsimmons, who was shot in the chest and experienced “sever

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