US EditionOfficials: MIT Professor Dies After Being Shot at Home
Authorities continue an active homicide investigation into the fatal shooting of MIT plasma physics director Nuno Loureiro, with no suspects identified or motive released.
- On Dec. 15, 2025, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts home and died Tuesday morning after being taken to a Boston hospital.
- Loureiro, director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, joined MIT in 2016 and was named center director last year to advance fusion and clean-energy research.
- Officers responded around 8:30 p.m. to reports of shots at a Gibbs Street apartment and found a victim with multiple gunshot wounds, while local residents reported hearing three loud bangs Monday evening.
- No one is in custody, the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office said, and MIT is offering support while Portuguese and U.S. officials issued condolences.
- That absence is felt across MIT, where colleagues described him as a leader; his death removes a head of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center with over 250 staff, occurring as authorities pursue a nearby manhunt after the Brown University rampage.
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NEW YORK, Dec 18 — A celebrated physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has died after being shot in his home, officials said, with police investigating the incident as a homicide.Portuguese professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, taught nuclear science and engineering as well as physics at the elite Boston-area university, MIT said in a statement Tuesday announcing his death.Prosecutors said that police had responded Monday night to L…
MIT professor murder: No obvious suspects or theories, sources say
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Cassandra Klos/Bloomberg via Getty Images (BOSTON) — Nearly two days after a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor was shot and killed at his home in upscale Brookline, Massachusetts, investigators have no obvious suspects and no working theory of the case, according to multiple sources briefed on the investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was found at…
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The BlazeProminent MIT professor — reportedly Jewish, pro-Israel — shot to death in his home; no suspect in custody
A prominent professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot in his Brookline home, the Associated Press reported.Nuno Loureiro was Jewish and a vocal pro-Israel nuclear scientist, the Jerusalem Post said; but the paper added that it could not confirm speculations by Jewish organizations that Loureiro was targeted for his political affiliations.'And a shooting in a state where it's so hard to even have a gun?'The shooting …
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