Bomb Threat Called In To Boston City Hall: Report

Boston MA

15 April, 2022

5:43 PM

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BOSTON, MA — Workers were forced to leave Boston City Hall after a bomb threat was phoned in to Boston City Hall on Friday, just three days before the Boston Marathon and the 9th anniversary of the bombing, according to reports. The threat was called into the Boston Fire Department just after 3 p.m. Officer Stephen McNulty told The Boston Herald, which first reported the threat on Friday afternoon. McNulty told the outlet that the fire department and bomb squad were dispatched to the scene right after. The threat came in just after a moment of silence was called on Boylston Street marking the ninth anniversary of the bombing, CBS Local reported. City officials posted that the building was closing for the remainder of the day, and asked that people should leave the building "immediately," adding "all employees should gather their belongings and exit the building as quickly as possible," according to The Herald. It was not clear who at City Hall answered the call in which the threat was issued, according to a report by Boston 25. Police search the building and deemed it safe, a police spokesperson told the outlet. The building was clear as of 5:20 p.m., NBC Boston reported. Boston police are continuing to investigate, according to reports. The 2013 Boston Marathon bombing injured hundreds of people and claimed the lives of 8-year-old Martin Richard of Dorchester, Lingzi Lu, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China, and Krystle Campbell, 29, a restaurant manager from Medford. MIT police Officer Sean Collier was shot dead by Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who was later killed in a confrontation with police. His brother, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, is now appealing his death sentence.