CAMBRIDGE, Mass. \u2014 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Authorities temporarily rerouted passengers on part of the city\u2019s subway system to shuttle buses as officers from various departments searched for a suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Richard Sullivan, superintendent of the Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority Transit Police Department, said in an email that a man armed with a gun fired four to five rounds at a \u201ctargeted individual\u201d on the southbound platform at the Harvard Square station, according to a preliminary investigation. The suspect then fled the station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is no evidence the targeted person or anyone else was injured, he said.<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Police were alerted to a report of shots fired around 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\u2019s main campus in Cambridge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The message, which was posted on Harvard\u2019s website, was removed later Sunday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n