Police officer dies after being shot at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (video)

A police officer has been killed in a shooting at Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "Gunshots were reported near Building 32 (Stata) which is currently surrounded by responding agencies," the university's emergency website reads.

"Please stay clear of area until further notice. Unknown if injuries have occurred. Although the situation is considered active and extremely dangerous, an investigation is underway," the post continued.

According to various local reports and claims by MIT community members on Twitter, the incident appears to be a robbery gone awry, and not a school shooting. The suspect - which the police scanner described very specifically as a 5'11" 200lb "dark skinned white male" wearing a black top making a getaway "on foot in unknown direction" - shot a police officer, who died minutes later from his injuries. The Middlesex DA’s office says the officer was responding to a report of a disturbance in the area of Vassar and Main streets. Authorities found him with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead.
No arrest has been made and the search for a suspect or suspects is ongoing.

Other scanner information claims the shooter used a fallen officer's gun. No information has so far pointed to his affiliation, or not, with the school.

Students have been advised to stay inside.

MIT, one of the world's best universities, is located in Cambridge, which borders Boston.