Cambridge, Massachusetts — Boston traffic police were investigating a shooting on Harvard University’s subway platform on Sunday, so the school urged students and staff to issue shelter orders.
Authorities temporarily rerouted passengers in parts of the city’s subway system and closed the bus as officers from various departments searched for suspects.
A preliminary investigation shows that Massachusetts Bai Transit Bureau’s Transit Police Chief Richard Sullivan said in an email that a gun-armed man fired four to five rounds on a “targeted individual” on a platform southbound on Harvard Square. The suspect then fled the station.
There is no evidence that targeted people or anyone else was injured, he said.
Police were warned of reports of shots fired around 2:15pm, and later a message was sent to the Harvard community, prompting people to receive further notices and search for areas around the busy station near the Cambridge school’s main campus.
Messages posted on the Harvard University website were deleted late Sunday afternoon.
