SALEM, MA — Salem Halloween visitors were asked to avoid a downtown area typically bustling with tourists because of a police investigation on Friday.
City officials requested that residents and visitors stay away the area of Front Street near City Hall and the Witch Museum amid the police investigation in a social media post at noon.
"Please avoid the Front Street area as the investigation proceeds," officials said.
Patch will have updates on this developing story as they become available.
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