Crime & Safety

UPDATED: Report of Person with Rifle Near School

Only an air rifle, police said. Baker School will be releasing a statement to parents.

Brookline, MA - Brookline police say a person reported near a school Monday only had an air rifle.

Roughly half an hour earlier, the police department said in a tweet a search was underway in the woods behind Baker School in Chestnut Hill, following up on a reported sighting of a person with a rifle.

"Students not impacted," police said in the initial tweet.

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The person was practicing target shooting in the woods behind Baker School, Brookline Police tweeted shortly before 9:30 a.m. Police said the school is releasing a statement to parents.

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