Overview
- Police say the armed man, confronted in a Hemenway Street apartment Saturday near campus, was shot by officers and later died at a hospital.
- Responders had been called after a 911 report that four people with guns were outside, and an EMS clinician judged the resident to be in acute mental distress after speaking through the door.
- When the door opened, the man stabbed a Boston officer in the arm and knocked the clinician down with a sword, prompting officers to fire a Taser and at least one gun as investigators work to confirm who discharged weapons.
- Several officers and two EMS clinicians were treated at local hospitals, with injuries described as non-life-threatening, and Northeastern told students there was no active threat.
- Police closed nearby streets as Boston police and prosecutors investigate, and officials said the case is not linked to a separate campus-area stabbing reported on April 1.