Harvard student hit, killed by truck

By Michael Levenson, Globe Staff

A 28-year-old Harvard student was killed today when a truck hit him while he was walking in a crosswalk in Cambridge, police said.

Police did not identify the victim, pending notification of his family. But Michael Simon, associate director of Harvard Hillel, wrote in an email to members of the campus Jewish organization that the victim was Isaac Meyers, a graduate student and cherished member of Harvard Hillel. Simon asked members to say a prayer.

“We feel immeasurable pain and sadness,” Simon wrote.

Officer Frank Pasquarello, a Cambridge police spokesman, said Meyers was walking at 6:45 a.m. across Massachusetts Avenue at Prospect Street in Central Square when he was hit by a Shaw’s supermarket tractor-trailer.

The cause of the accident remains under investigation. No charges have been filed.

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