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One dead in Cambridge shooting
By adamg on Wed, 08/12/2015 - 9:15pm
UPDATE: Police identify victim as Rasaun Nichols, 31, of Cambridge.
Cambridge Police report a passenger in a car leaving the Newtowne Court project at Main and Winsor streets was shot around 8:40 p.m. According to police:
That vehicle was driven down Main Street towards Kendall Square, where it later stopped. The victim was pronounced deceased after he was transported to a local hospital. The victim’s identification will be released once next of kin are notified. The driver is cooperating with officers.
Police say multiple shots were fired and that the suspect remains at large.
MIT Police sent out an alert around 9 p.m. urging people to stay away from Kendall Square.
Anyone who knows something can call Cambridge Police at 617-349-3300, or contact the anonymous tip line by calling 617-349-3359 or sending a text message to 847411.
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Lockdown
Some businesses in the area are under lockdown. Unclear if this is self-imposed or at police request.
Just passed through there
Shortly after 9:00 I passed through Kendall Square, coming out of the Marriott hotel and taking the Red Line outbound. There was a police and fire department (medic?) presence and that part of Main Street was cordoned off with yellow tape — the area between the inbound and outbound station entrances. Other than the police and fire presence, and the yellow tape, I saw nothing out of the ordinary. I saw no one on the ground, no "suspicious parcels", no signs of an accident, no vehicles pulled over other than the emergency vehicles.
This was not "the 700 block" of Main Street, but right about number 290 or 300. There were several people gathered just outside the yellow tape, looking in, and the police weren't making any effort to push them back. I think the digital sign in the station said 9:04 pm when I got downstairs.
The actual shooting occurred in the 700 block
of Main St, at the Newtowne Public Housing Project. The victim then drove down Main, stopping in front of the Kendall indound stop, and died.
Update
Cambridge Chronicle reports the shooting happened on Windsor Street, near Washington. Victim then drove his car to the Kendall subway station, where he collapsed. (Maybe he was trying to get to MGH?)
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150812/NEWS/150818369
Thanks, updated original post
Would have done so earlier, but five people were shot in Boston, so was concentrating on that for a bit ...
Lucky not to be there tonight
Had I biked to and from the Landmarks Orchestra concert, which I often do on summer Wednesday evenings, I would have passed through Kendall Square right when this happened.
R.I.P. to the victim. I hope
R.I.P. to the victim. I hope my former neighbors are safe.
That little neighborhood has changed so quickly with all the construction and major rent spikes. The exception being the low income housing -- Newtowne Court, for example, seemed almost forgotten and ignored while I was living there.
As always, thank you Adam for reporting on such a wide variety of topics in the Boston area. I still keep reading even though I moved out of state.
Roughly the same location as last year's shooting
David Kensley, on July 3rd, in that neighborhood. Heard on 'BUR this morning that there was something like ten shots. That's purpose, not chance.
http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20140708/News/140707561
That project brings the
That project brings the neighborhood down and accounts for a huge percentage of the shootings in Cambridge (luckily there aren't a lot total).
I was walking near it one night about 7 years ago and some cops on foot asked me if I had seen any guys running away. I said I hadn't. Turns out there had just been a shooting in the projects. It was the first murder in Cambridge in 2 years.