Shooting at MIT

[SheHateMe]

Massachusetts Institute of Technology issued warning to students late Thursday night of shots being fired on campus.

According to the school's website, gunshots were reported in the vicinity of Building 32 in the Stata Center of the campus. School authorities have asked students to stay clear of the area while an investigation was underway. MIT's emergency system also sent the following text to students:

Emergency textECNET):MITAlert: There is a report of an Active Shooter in the vicinity of Building 32 Stata Center. Stay clear of the area. Follow up: emergency.mit.net
The Twitter account for MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, also sent a notice urging students to stay inside.

Local news affiliate WCVB-TV (http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metr...308/-/format/rsss_2.0/-/128h43jz/-/index.html), reported that an MIT police officer was shot on campus around 10:30 p.m., but details are still coming in from the scene.

According to HuffPost's Michael McLaughlin, reporting from the ground, "About two dozen cops and detectives are clustered in an area south of Main St., a short distance from crime scene tape," with more police continuing to arrive by car.

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Update: Police Officer down

#MIT ALERT: Shots fired near 32 Vassar St (Stata Center), police officer down. Please stay inside.

The Boston Globe's MetroDesk blog confirmed the report of an officer down, after speaking to a Cambridge Police dispatcher.

The police officer reportedly suffered life-threatening injuries in the shooting, and was taken to an area hospital, a State Police spokesman told The Globe.

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Must be Crazy Week.

 

[brianmanahan]

i heard it was just fireworks, nothing to see

 

[seepy83]

i heard it was just fireworks, nothing to see

Or not.

Officer died :'( (CNN Reporting on TV)

 

[SheHateMe]

Or not.

Officer died :'(

Edit: nvm. He died.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Fucking crazy here. Something going on down the street from me on Memorial Drive.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Supposedly a suspicious package further down Memorial Drive near me.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Gunfight going on in Watertown.

 

[SheHateMe]

Gunfight going on in Watertown.

You're in MA, right? I hope you are okay. Go in the basement!

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Supposedly a suspicious package further down Memorial Drive near me.

Listening to the boston PD now. Talking about if cell phones setting off unexplored ordinance.

Multiple location of devices too.

One in custody and reference to an officer down.

Caveman do you know where mt. Auburn is? Package on the ground there

 

[Capt Caveman]

You're in MA, right? I hope you are okay. Go in the basement!

I'm in Cambridge. And I don't have a basement. :-(

Ok. I hear part of the gunfight in Watertown included explosives. One of the suspects was shot and is down and the other suspect drove off in a SUV. Supposedly there are IEDs in the street.

From what I can piece together, after the MIT shooting there was a carjacking near me then the suspects fled and got into a gunfight with police in Watertown which included the suspects throwing grenades/IEDs at them.

I'm getting this from watching the news right now.

 

[halik]

grenades? wtF?

 

[Capt Caveman]

Listening to the boston PD now. Talking about if cell phones setting off unexplored ordinance.

Multiple location of devices too.

One in custody and reference to an officer down.

Caveman do you know where mt. Auburn is? Package on the ground there

Mt. Auburn St runs from Harvard Sq and goes into Watertown. I had heard the suspicious package was at the corner of Memorial Drive and Pleasant St where a Courtyard Mariott is located and is just a couple of hundred yards away from the supposed carjacking.

 

[SheHateMe]

What the fuck is going on right now?

 

[MomentsofSanity]

One in custody and one at gunpoint now. They do keep reference auburn though.

5-0 Radio is the app if anyone wants to tune in. Pretty wild now.

 

[SheHateMe]

I hope the cops don't kill them. I want answers. Shoot out their kneecaps instead.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Hearing that at the crime scene in Watertown, cell phones are being turned off due to undetonated explosives.

 

[halik]

second perp down;

edit: second person in custody, need id

 

[MomentsofSanity]

CNN's broadcast is caught up to the details I was hearing on the scanner. If this isn't connected in some way I'd be surprised. What could the odds be?

 

[SheHateMe]

If these are the two guys that blew up the Marathon..WOW.

 

[moonbogg]

They need to ban grenades. All I gotta say.

 

[chowderhead]

Jeebus, crazy crap. One suspect is caught at least.

Damn it could be them!

 

[MomentsofSanity]

Dammit lost the feed.

 

[SheHateMe]

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1cnl3y/armed_assailant_on_mit_campus_gunshots_fired/

I am able to listen to the Police scanner. It is working for me.

 

[Slew Foot]

must be somethig in the water