UPDATE: Police: Report of gunman at MIT is unfounded

11:56 AM, Feb 23, 2013   |    comments
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BOSTON (AP) - Police in Massachusetts say a call reporting a gunman on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus was unfounded and that there is no threat to public safety. 

Police said Saturday that officers searched for a man reported to be carrying a long rifle and wearing body armor and found nothing. A spokeswoman for the university says the school also called off a campus-wide lockdown.

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