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Harvard Lifts Shelter Order After Shots Fired Near Radcliffe Quad

Police are searching for a man who fled on a bicycle toward Garden Street after the gunfire.

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People walk through a gate as they exit Harvard Yard on the campus of Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachussetts, on April 15, 2025. Elite US university Harvard was hit with a $2.2 billion federal funding freeze on April 14 after rejecting a list of sweeping demands that the White House said was intended to crack down on campus anti-Semitism. The call for changes to its governance, hiring practices and admissions procedures expands a list Harvard received on April 3, which ordered officials to shut diversity offices and cooperate with immigration authorities for screenings of international students. In a letter to students and faculty, Harvard president Alan Garber vowed to defy the government, insisting that the school would not "negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights." (Photo by JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)
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Overview

  • Cambridge police responded shortly after 11 a.m. to reports of shots fired on Sherman Street near Danehy Park and the Radcliffe Quad.
  • Harvard issued emergency alerts and a shelter-in-place for campus areas near the Quad, then lifted the order around noon.
  • Investigators recovered ballistic evidence at the scene, and police reported no known victims and no ongoing public-safety risk.
  • City and university officers continued canvassing the area for the unidentified suspect, with K-9 units deployed and streets cordoned off.
  • Harvard temporarily paused campus shuttles and directed affiliates to avoid the Quad and report suspicious activity to HUPD.