Today's Top Headlines

Saturday, September 13

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Happy Saturday, everyone! Some of the headlines that we're continuing to follow this morning are Brian Walshe was stabbed in Norfolk County jail, and a Boston police officer who testified about a "false memory" in Karen Read's retrial has resigned. I'm Kaitlin McKinley Becker, and these are our top news stories.

A Boston police officer who testified in Karen Read‘s retrial has resigned, the department said Friday.

Officer Kelly Dever resigned, effective Sept. 1. Police didn’t share more information on the circumstances around her resignation, saying only that the personnel order on the resignation was released Friday.

She had been on leave, which a Boston police spokesman confirmed to NBC10 Boston in July.

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The off-duty police officer shot at her home by a fellow officer in North Andover, Massachusetts, is back in jail just a few days after her release this week.

A judge ruled Monday that Kelsey Fitzsimmons would be freed on personal recognizance with the conditions that she not see her infant son and she submit to alcohol testing. The decision in Essex Superior Court came after a judge had ruled last month that Fitzsimmons could be released into the custody of her parents while the case against her plays out following her indictment on a single count of assault by means of a dangerous weapon.

A Haitian man charged with raping a 15-year-old girl last year at a hotel serving as an emergency shelter for migrant families in Rockland, Massachusetts, has been found guilty following a four-day trial in Plymouth Superior Court.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy J. Cruz announced Friday that jurors deliberated for a little more than five hours before finding Cory B. Alvarez guilty of one count each of aggravated rape of a child with 10-year age difference.

“The jury has spoken, and we thank them for their time and due diligence in finding Cory Alvarez guilty,” Cruz said in a statement. “This difficult case has always been about going forward to seek justice on behalf of this child victim. I am grateful that we were able to have this case tried on the merits, and the jury ultimately reached their unanimous conclusion.”

A teenager was arrested Thursday on suspicion he was planning a shooting at a Cape Cod school, authorities said.

The 18-year-old, Ian Fotheringham, was found with a 3D printer that can produce a firearm, and had images of the deadly Columbine High School shooting on his phone, the Cape & Islands District Attorney’s Office said Friday. A search of his Falmouth home in August — prompted by a tip that he wanted to enact a school shooting — had found no illegal guns.

Fotheringham faced a charge of threatened use of a deadly weapon in a public building in Barnstable District Court on Friday and was ordered held until a dangerousness hearing Tuesday, prosecutors said. It wasn’t immediately clear if Fotheringham had an attorney who could speak to the charge.

The Charlie Kirk murder investigation had a big break, leading to an arrest on Thursday. The early stages of the case have some striking similarities to the Boston Marathon bombing investigation, according to a former agent who worked on the Massachusetts manhunt.

Soon after the chaotic Boston bombing scene developed – it quickly turned into a massive manhunt just like the murder of Charlie Kirk in Utah.

Former FBI Boston Special Agent in Charge Rick DesLauriers says both cases involved labor-intensive scanning of surveillance video.

Brian Walshe, scheduled to stand trial next month for the murder of his wife, Ana Walshe, was reportedly stabbed in Norfolk County Jail in Dedham, Massachusetts, on Thursday night.

He was taken to a Boston hospital for treatment of a superficial injury, where he was treated and released, according to a law enforcement source close to the investigation. He is now back at the jail.

Though they didn’t name Walshe, the Norfolk County Sheriff’s Office released a statement saying that “an individual in custody” at the Norfolk County Jail was treated for non-life-threatening injuries after being assaulted inside one of the facility’s housing units around 9:55 p.m. Thursday.