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BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A tragic incident unfolded near Boston as law enforcement officials report no arrests have been made following the fatal shooting of an MIT professor at his residence.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, aged 47, succumbed to his injuries at a local hospital on Tuesday morning after being shot on Monday night in Brookline, as confirmed by the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office.
MIT mourns the loss of Loureiro, who was at the helm of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science and Engineering, as well as Physics. The institute has pledged to provide support and resources to students, colleagues, and others affected by the tragedy.
Brookline police referred questions about the shooting to the prosecutor’s office, which gave only limited information about what it called “an active and ongoing homicide investigation.”
Loureiro pursued his studies in Portugal and London and did postdoctoral work at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, according to his MIT faculty page. He was a researcher at the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion at IST Lisbon before joining MIT in 2016, it said.
