Female Dies Following Apparent Assault

Updated Announcement: Tuesday, July 24, 2018

Police are investigating an incident on Cambridge Street on Sunday, July 22 at approximately 6:30 p.m. during which a teenage girl was fatally injured.  Investigators are attempting to locate and identify any witnesses to the incident including information concerning the identity of a person seen in the area on a bicycle.

Members of the public with information they believe will be helpful may contact Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office at (781) 897-6600. Tips can be left anonymously or contact Cambridge Police at (617) 349-3300. You can also provide information anonymously by calling the Cambridge Police Tip Hotline at (617) 349-3359 and leave a message. 

Anonymous tips may also be sent via the Cambridge Police MyPD mobile app or via text message to 847411. Begin your text with TIP650 and then type your message. To send anonymous tips via e-mail, please visit www.cambridgepolice.org/tips. 

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Original Announcement: Monday, July 23, 2018

Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Cambridge Police Commissioner Branville Bard Jr. have confirmed that a 15-year-old female has died following an apparent assault last night. At approximately 6:30 p.m. on July 22, 2018 Cambridge Police responded to a report of a female who had been thrown to the ground on Cambridge Street. The preliminary investigation suggests that the victim was walking to an acquaintance’s house when she was shoved to the ground striking her head.

The victim was transported to an area hospital in critical condition. At approximately 2:45 p.m. today she was pronounced dead.  This is an open and ongoing investigation and no further information is being released, including the identification of the decedent, pending a ruling of the cause and manner of death by the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.

No arrests have been made in connection with this incident.

This case is being investigated by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, the Cambridge Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police assigned to the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office.