Cambridge, Mass. – The Transit Police in Boston was investigating a shooting on a Metro platform near Harvard University on Sunday that took school to issue a refuge order in the place for students and staff.
The authorities temporarily redirected passengers in part of the city’s subway system to transport buses while the officers of several departments were looking for a suspect.
Richard Sullivan, Superintendent of the Transit Police Department of the Massachusetts Bay Traffic Authority, said in an email that a man armed with a weapon shot four to five rounds to an “directed individual” on the southern platform at the Harvard Square station, according to a preliminary investigation. The suspect fled the station.
There is no evidence that the target person or any other person was injured, he said.
The Police was alerted to a shooting report around 2:15 pm later a message was sent to the Harvard community, urging people to take refuge in the nearest building until it is coming and that police were looking in the area around the busy station, which is close to the main campus of the school in Cambridge.
The message, which was published on the Harvard website, was later eliminated on Sunday afternoon.
