Harvard orders shelter in place after shots fired on Sherman Street

Harvard University briefly ordered a shelter in place Friday morning after reports that an unidentified man on a bicycle fired a shot at another person on Sherman Street in Cambridge, near the Radcliffe Quad and Danehy Park, university and police alerts said. The suspect fled on a bicycle toward Garden Street, and Cambridge Police later recovered ballistic evidence at the scene. Authorities said there were no known injuries.

University officials sent the first emergency alert shortly after 11 a.m., advising students, faculty and staff to avoid the Radcliffe Quad and remain inside buildings while Harvard University Police and the Cambridge Police Department searched the area. Within about an hour the university sent an update saying the shelter in place had been lifted. A Harvard alert around 11:50 a.m. quoted police as saying, "There is no ongoing public safety risk at this time. The shelter in place is lifted. Please continue to be vigilant and report any suspicious activity."

Cambridge Police confirmed officers were on scene of a shots-fired incident on Sherman Street and that ballistic evidence had been recovered. Police and university officers were searching for the cyclist,...