At the least three photographs fired, shortly earlier than 2:15 p.m., on the inbound platform.
No victims reported.
Harvard despatched a message to individuals on campus: “Shelter in place. Please enter the closest constructing and keep there till all clear is given.” The varsity has since suspended the directive, however as of 4 p.m., the Crimson Line was nonetheless shut on the station, with the T working shuttle buses between Central and Alewife.
MBTA police had an inbound practice that had simply left the station and was within the tunnel to Central return to Harvard, the doorways shut, till they decided the gunfire got here from the platform. Ari Ofsevit experiences his spouse was on that practice:
Capturing on platform as they pulled out. Prepare stopped in tunnel. Pulled again into station with doorways closed, awaiting police. “We’re on the ground.” Prepare pulled into tunnel; nobody knew if the gunman was on the practice.
Yael experiences the evacuation of Harvard station and the beginning of shuttle-bus service didn’t go nicely:
[The T] is now working shuttle buses on the crimson line between central and alewife. nevertheless, there aren’t any buses to be seen and no MBTA workers to direct vacationers – extra stranded, much less shuttles. …
Passengers have simply been stranded with [T]conductors *screaming* at vacationers who do not converse english to depart the station. The one one who would speak to me mentioned the buses haven’t but been dispatched. This isn’t okay.
