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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The internationally renowned university professor, 47 years old, was killed with at least three shots of a gun. You don't know the dynamics and motive of the crime: someone thinks that it involves hatred against the Jews
The Israeli newspaper Jerusalem Post reports that Israeli authorities are investigating information concerning Iranian involvement. No Loureiro will have taken positions before Israel.
A famous physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) died after being shot at his home, authorities reported, and the police investigated the incident as a homicide. Portuguese professor Nuno Loureiro, 47, was teaching science and nuclear engineering, in addition to physics, at the prestigious Boston University, as reported by MIT in a statement on Tuesday announcing his death. The prosecution indicated that the police came Mond…
Prominent MIT fusion scientist shot dead in Boston home, police investigate murder
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…
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