"The quick and thorough response by Boston Police and other agencies is the start of a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here."īoston police also responded to a report of another suspicious package on Huntington Avenue, in the area of the Museum of Fine Arts. "We're monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we're ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop," Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said in a statement. "I take very seriously that this city is home to everyone's young people.we want to make sure to emphasize that this is of the utmost priority, the safety and wellbeing of all of our young people here," Boston Mayor Michelle Wu said. Other colleges have put out warnings for students to report anything suspicious. The incident has put the community on alert. "So there will be tangible evidence that will be collected and then, in a sense, reassembled to a point to be able to understand all of the components that were utilized." "Even in an explosion, the components of the device do not necessarily disintegrate," McGhee told NBC10 Boston. Security expert Todd McGhee, a former Massachusetts State Police trooper, expects that investigators will be able to learn information from the device despite the blast. Tuesday’s explosion marked one of the first big scares in Boston since 2013, when two bombs planted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon killed three spectators and wounded more than 260 others.Ron DeSantis Is on the Verge of Announcing His Presidential Bid Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, both on the other side of the Charles River separating Boston from Cambridge, said they were increasing patrols on their campuses as a precaution and urging students and faculty to report anything suspicious. “We’re monitoring the situation at Northeastern and we’re ready to work with the university and our law enforcement partners on any prosecutions that may develop,” Suffolk County District Attorney Kevin Hayden said, promising “a comprehensive investigation to determine exactly what occurred here.” Boston police didn’t say whether any other suspicious packages were found. Michael Davis, chief of Northeastern’s police force, told reporters the campus was secure. Beaudet told the station his class was moved outside but that neither he nor his students heard an explosion. WCVB said one of its reporters, Mike Beaudet, was teaching a class there at the time. Northeastern is a private university in downtown Boston. Police converged on the campus shortly before 7:30 p.m., and the university asked students who had gathered for an evening journalism class at the hall to evacuate the building. It said the FBI was assisting the investigation.Īuthorities declined to elaborate, but Northeastern spokesperson Shannon Nargi said in a statement that an unidentified university staff member suffered minor injuries to his hand in the explosion. NBC Boston reported that the package that exploded went off as it was being opened near the university’s Holmes Hall, which is home to the university’s creative writing program and its women’s, gender and sexuality studies program. Boston’s bomb squad neutralized a second package near the city’s Museum of Fine Arts, which is on the outskirts of the Northeastern campus. The parcel that blew up was one of two that were reported to police early in the evening.
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