Cambridge, Mass. transit Police in Boston investigated a shooting on a metroplatform near Harvard University on Sunday that led the school to give an order in the hiding place for students and staff.
Authorities have temporarily diverted passengers on a part of the city’s metro system to commute buses while officers from different departments were looking for a suspect.
Richard Sullivan, chief inspector of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Transit Police Department, said in an e -mail that a man has fired with a gun with a gun to a ‘targeted person’ on the southern platform on the Harvard Square Station, according to a provisional investigation. The suspect then fled the station.
There is no evidence that the intended person or someone else was injured, he said.
The police were warned of a report from Schoten that were fired around 2.15 pm, a message was later sent to the Harvard community and urged people to protect in the nearest building until further order and that the police were looking for the area around the busy station, which is near the main campus of the school in Cambridge.
The message, which was posted on the Harvard website, was deleted later on Sunday afternoon.
