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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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…
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