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What to know about MIT professor Nuno Loureiro, who was shot at home near Boston
Authorities continue a multi-agency homicide investigation with no arrests; Loureiro led a major fusion research center with over 250 staff at MIT.
- On Monday night, December 15, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor, was found fatally shot at his Brookline, Massachusetts home and pronounced dead at a Boston hospital Tuesday, December 16.
- Brookline police responded to reports of gunshots on Gibbs Street around 8:30 p.m. and found a victim with multiple gunshot wounds, while Massachusetts State Police lead the investigation with help from Brookline police and the Norfolk District Attorney's Office.
- A leading fusion scientist, Nuno F.G. Loureiro was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center after joining Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2016, leading over 250 people across seven buildings and receiving the Presidential Early Career Award in January.
- Dozens of mourners held a silent candlelight vigil Tuesday night outside 9 Gibbs St., neighbors and colleagues expressed grief, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology offered condolences while authorities increased patrols.
- The killing came days after a deadly shooting at Brown University that killed two students and injured nine others, but FBI officials said at a press briefing there appears to be no connection between the incidents.
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Police intensified on Wednesday their search for the killer of a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was shot at at his home near Boston earlier this week.
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