Tue, 16 Dec 2025 23:33:47 -0800 marlon from private IP, post #19576929 /all An MIT professor & physicist scientist is killed https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/12/16/mit-professor-fatally-shot-at-home/87801879007/ An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home and police launched a homicide investigation Associated Press Updated Dec. 16, 2025, 8:39 p.m. ET This undated photo provided by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in December 2025 shows Nuno Loureiro. Brookline, Mass. — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation. Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement. The prosecutor’s office said no suspects had been taken into custody as of Tuesday afternoon, and that its investigation was ongoing. Loureiro, who joined MIT in 2016, was named last year to lead MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, where he aimed to advance clean energy technology and other research. The center, one of the school's largest labs, had more than 250 people working across seven buildings when he took the helm. Loureiro, who was married, grew up in Viseu, in central Portugal, and studied in Lisbon before earning a doctorate in London, according to MIT. He was a researcher at an institute for nuclear fusion in Lisbon before joining MIT, it said. “He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader, and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner,” Dennis Whyte, an engineering professor who previously led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, told a campus publication. The president of MIT, Sally Kornbluth, said in a statement that Loureiro’s death was a “shocking loss.” The homicide investigation in Brookline comes as police in Providence, Rhode Island, about 50 miles away, continue to search for the gunman who killed two students and injured nine others at Brown University on Saturday. The FBI on Tuesday said it knew of no connection between the crimes. A 22-year-old student at Boston University who lives near Loureiro's apartment in Brookline told The Boston Globe she heard three loud noises Monday evening and feared it was gunfire. “I had never heard anything so loud, so I assumed they were gunshots,” Liv Schachner was quoted as saying. “It’s difficult to grasp. It just seems like it keeps happening.” Some of Loureiro's students visited his home, an apartment in a three-story brick building, Tuesday afternoon to pay their respects, the Globe reported. A crowd of people holding candles gather outside the home of Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro in Brookline, Mass., Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. The U.S. ambassador to Portugal, John J. Arrigo, expressed his condolences in an online post that honored Loureiro for his leadership and contributions to science. “It’s not hyperbole to say MIT is where you go to find solutions to humanity’s biggest problems,” Loureiro said when he was named to lead the plasma science lab last year. “Fusion energy will change the course of human history.” Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:55:20 -0800 marlon from private IP Reply #12667882 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/brown-mit-shooting-person-of-interest.html?campaign_id=60&emc=edit_na_20251218&instance_id=168177&nl=breaking-news®i_id=70888831&segment_id=212476&user_id=eb5ae5d09d19f5bc7e5216b31800715f Here’s the latest. By Chelsia Rose Marcius and Maria Cramer Dec. 18, 2025 Updated 4:50 p.m. ET The authorities on Thursday identified a person of interest in the shooting at Brown University and are investigating whether there is a possible connection to the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor, according to two people briefed on the matter not authorized to speak about the investigation. Investigators are searching for the individual and a car that the person is believed to have rented, one official said. The authorities have not publicly identified a suspect in either case. The authorities believe the rented vehicle is the same make and model of a car identified in connection with the shooting of the M.I.T. professor in Brookline, Mass., the official said. An alert issued to the police in the Boston area directed officers to look for the car, and warned that anyone in it could be armed, dangerous and wanted in connection with the Brookline homicide. The alert did not mention the shooting at Brown. A few minutes after 4 p.m. last Saturday afternoon, a masked gunman dressed in black burst into a lecture hall in the Barus and Holley science building at Brown, yelled something incomprehensible and started firing at students who had gathered for a review session before final exams. Two students were killed — MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old from Virginia, and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Alabama. Nine other students were injured and six remained hospitalized Thursday afternoon, all in stable condition. On Monday night, the authorities in Brookline were called to the home of the M.I.T. professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, who had been shot and was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning. Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I. in Boston, initially said there seemed to be “no connection” between the attack at Brown and Dr. Loureiro’s death. The shooting at Brown drew a huge police response of some 400 law enforcement officers who poured onto the campus and into the East Side neighborhood around the Ivy League school on Saturday afternoon. Heavily armed officers searched campus buildings room to room for the killer, while others scoured neighboring streets. Helicopters circled overhead, but the shooter managed to escape. The police detained a person of interest early Sunday morning, a 24-year-old man, bringing some calm to the jittery city, but it was short-lived. Scientific tests on evidence cleared the man, and he was released. This is a developing story, check back for updates. Alan Blinder and Mark Arsenault contributed to this story. Chelsia Rose Marcius is a criminal justice reporter for The Times, covering the New York Police Department. Maria Cramer is a Times reporter covering the New York Police Department and crime in the city and surrounding areas.Replies require login.
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