Police investigate Harvard shooting that forced students to shelter in place
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Transit police in Boston were investigating a shooting on a subway platform at Harvard University on Sunday that prompted the school to issue a shelter-in-place order for students and staff.
Authorities temporarily rerouted passengers on part of the city’s subway system to shuttle buses as officers from various departments searched for a suspect.
Richard Sullivan, superintendent of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority police department, said in an email that a gunman fired four or five rounds at a “targeted individual” on the southbound platform at the Harvard Square station, according to a preliminary investigation. The assailant then fled the station.
There is no evidence the target or anyone else was injured, he said.
Police were alerted to a report of shots fired about 2:15 p.m. A message was later sent to the Harvard community, urging people to shelter in the nearest building until further notice and that police were searching the area around the busy station, which is near the school’s main campus in Cambridge.
The message, which was posted on Harvard’s website, was removed later Sunday afternoon.
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