An MIT professor was fatally shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on Monday night.
47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor, was shot multiple times, according to police.
Loureiro was transported to a Boston hospital and died Tuesday morning.
A neighbor told CBS News that they heard three loud bangs on Monday night.
“I thought at first it was somebody in our apartment kicking in a door or something so I called the neighbors and they said no they thought it was gunshots,” a neighbor told CBS News.
A suspect is not in custody
CBS News reported:
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the school confirmed. Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, was 47 years old.
A Brookline police spokesperson said officers responded to a call for gunshots at an apartment on Gibbs Street at about 8:30 p.m.
“A victim was located who had been shot multiple times,” Brookline police deputy superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV.
Loureiro was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital, where he died Tuesday morning. No other information about the shooting was immediately released and authorities did not say if they are looking for a suspect. Campbell said no one is in custody.
“This is an active and ongoing homicide investigation,” Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office said in a statement.
Loureiro was recently appointed director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
“Loureiro is taking the helm of one of MIT’s largest labs: more than 250 full-time researchers, staff members, and students work and study in seven buildings with 250,000 square feet of lab space,” MIT said earlier this year.
“A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, Loureiro joined MIT as a faculty member in 2016, and was appointed deputy director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) in 2022. Loureiro succeeds Dennis Whyte, who stepped down at the end of 2023 to return to teaching and research,” MIT said.
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