Somebody keeps shooting blank rounds in small section of Cambridge

By adamg on Sun, 03/13/2016 - 10:11pm

Cambridge Police report recovering three blank shell casings at Broadway and Windsor Street this evening - after getting a 911 call and and anonymous text tip about gunfire there around 6:40 p.m.

Both witnesses reported hearing a car speeding away after the shots were fired., police say.

Around 9:40 p.m. on Feb. 22, police found two blank shell casings at Windsor and Harvard Street. Around 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 2, police found a blank shell at Harvard and Davis streets - after residents reported hearing gunfire and then the sound of a motor vehicle speeding away.

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Comments

Sending a message to someone

By anon on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 8:52am.

Sending a message to someone or testing response times?

Blanks?

By Rob O on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 11:25am.

How do we know these are blanks? A shell casing would not contain the bullet after it's been fired. Is there some way to know from the casing that there was never a bullet?

Or are these "empty" shell casings?

Many blanks have the casing

By Ryan M on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 1:34pm.

Many blanks have the casing pinched closed. They're pretty distinctive.

Sometimes they are labelled

By anon on Mon, 03/14/2016 - 2:10pm.

Sometimes they are labelled as such or as Ryan M said, they have a distinctive look. Shot-spotter should also be able to tell the difference except if the projectile is subsonic.