Police are searching for a person of interest following reports of shots fired at the Harvard Square MBTA station, the Cambridge Police Department confirmed. Cambridge police officers responded to the station at 2:15 p.m. Sunday after receiving calls for shots fired at the Red Line station.In a statement to WCVB, MBTA Transit Police said that a man on the southbound platform at the Harvard Square station fired four to five rounds at a targeted person. The suspect fled the station after the shooting, and there is no evidence that anyone was struck by gunshots in the incident, transit police said. Matthew West says he was on a Red Line train approaching Harvard Square when he heard the gunshots. "I still don’t know what happened. I’m walking around in a state of disbelief," West said. "I could hear four to five gunshots. Immediately, I didn’t know what it was, but clearly there was panic on the other end of the train. People were crouching behind things, running back through the car."Video from a passenger on a Red Line train at the time of the shooting shows straphangers evacuating the train with their hands above their heads. Meanwhile, Harvard University ordered those on its nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to shelter in place, an order that has since been lifted. Red Line service resumed Sunday evening with delays of up to 15 minutes, the MBTA announced.No one was injured in the incident, Cambridge police said. An investigation into the shooting is active.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. —
Police are searching for a person of interest following reports of shots fired at the Harvard Square MBTA station, the Cambridge Police Department confirmed.
Cambridge police officers responded to the station at 2:15 p.m. Sunday after receiving calls for shots fired at the Red Line station.
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In a statement to WCVB, MBTA Transit Police said that a man on the southbound platform at the Harvard Square station fired four to five rounds at a targeted person.
The suspect fled the station after the shooting, and there is no evidence that anyone was struck by gunshots in the incident, transit police said.
Matthew West says he was on a Red Line train approaching Harvard Square when he heard the gunshots.
"I still don’t know what happened. I’m walking around in a state of disbelief," West said. "I could hear four to five gunshots. Immediately, I didn’t know what it was, but clearly there was panic on the other end of the train. People were crouching behind things, running back through the car."
Video from a passenger on a Red Line train at the time of the shooting shows straphangers evacuating the train with their hands above their heads.
Meanwhile, Harvard University ordered those on its nearby Cambridge, Massachusetts, campus to shelter in place, an order that has since been lifted.
Red Line service resumed Sunday evening with delays of up to 15 minutes, the MBTA announced.
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Red Line Update: Regular service has resumed with residual delays of about 15 minutes due to earlier police activity at Harvard. https://t.co/EMABoTr4PT
— MBTA (@MBTA) April 20, 2025
No one was injured in the incident, Cambridge police said. An investigation into the shooting is active.
