Somebody keeps shooting blank rounds in small section of Cambridge
By adamg on Sun, 03/13/2016 - 10:11pm
Cambridge Police report recovering three blank shell casings at Broadway and Windsor Street this evening - after getting a 911 call and and anonymous text tip about gunfire there around 6:40 p.m.
Both witnesses reported hearing a car speeding away after the shots were fired., police say.
Around 9:40 p.m. on Feb. 22, police found two blank shell casings at Windsor and Harvard Street. Around 6:45 p.m. on Feb. 2, police found a blank shell at Harvard and Davis streets - after residents reported hearing gunfire and then the sound of a motor vehicle speeding away.
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Sending a message to someone
Sending a message to someone or testing response times?
Blanks?
How do we know these are blanks? A shell casing would not contain the bullet after it's been fired. Is there some way to know from the casing that there was never a bullet?
Or are these "empty" shell casings?
Many blanks have the casing
Many blanks have the casing pinched closed. They're pretty distinctive.
Sometimes they are labelled
Sometimes they are labelled as such or as Ryan M said, they have a distinctive look. Shot-spotter should also be able to tell the difference except if the projectile is subsonic.