Gunfire returned to the Clement Morgan Park area in Cambridge on Monday, police said.
It was the year’s sixth reported gunfire, and the third in The Port neighborhood. The city has been quiet for three months, since a July 4 incident outside a Central Square nightclub.
At 11:04 p.m. police got multiple 911 calls reporting two gunshots on Columbia Street and an activation of ShotSpotter technology, which listens for gunfire, according to scanner reports and an email sent by police early Tuesday. The shots were fired across from Columbia Terrace housing, according to scanner reports.
Officers responded and recovered two shell casings at the scene, but there are no known victims, police said, describing most gunfire incidents in Cambridge over the past several years – though half of the incidents this year have drawn blood, including one death: Angel Nieves, 21, killed in North Cambridge on Jan. 14.
By this time last year there had been 10 gunfire incidents, and there were 13 total for the year, none fatal. Six of them took place in The Port. Clement Morgan Park, at Columbia and Main streets, was the scene of two gunfire incidents in the summer of 2018.
Detectives from the Criminal Investigation Section were at the park area early Tuesday to investigate but believed there to be no ongoing public safety threat, police said.
Anyone with information about the gunfire incident can call detectives anonymously through a tip line at (617) 349-9151 or online at cambridgepolice.org/TIPS.
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