Parts of Harvard campus sealed off as police investigate bomb threat
UPDATE: At 1:15 p.m., Harvard reported the campus re-opened. See the comments for Cambridge PD statement.
Focus centers on the Science Center and Prescott Street, where a caller claimed to have put a bomb, Matthew George reports.
At 10:11, Nina Khosrowsalafi reported:
Just got evacuated from Harvard Yard due to bomb threat. Lots of police with guns out.
On its Emergency page, Harvard reports:
Recently, the Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) received a call from an unidentified male who claimed to be on campus and armed and that he had placed bombs at several buildings on Harvard's campus. HUPD officers immediately responded to the locations he identified but could not locate an individual. The named buildings -- including the Science Center -- were immediately evacuated. Cambridge Police Department and Cambridge Fire Department were notified and, with HUPD, are in the process of examining the named buildings.
Meanwhile, some Twitter rando started posting he was the one who called in the bomb threat - at least, until he thought better of it and deleted the tweets, which, of course, somebody captured first.
Harvard buildings were last evacuated for a bomb threat in December. In April, a UMass Boston student was charged with making two separate bomb threats against the UMass campus.
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Statement from Cambridge Police:
Adam, if you look at the
Adam, if you look at the twitter post you had originally linked there was a guy that replied to her comment. His comment was ridiculous and made it sound like he was condoning the bomb threat. So, I read through his timeline and he claims he's "swatted" 5 or 6 schools before. He's either involved in this or just crazy.
And your telling him because?
And your telling him because?
1, because I can.
1, because I can.
2, because it sounds related to the story.