On Monday, Dec 15, gunshots rang out on Gibbs Street in Brookline, Mass. Worried neighbors immediately contacted the police and emergency responders rushed to the scene. They arrived at around 8:30 pm and discovered an adult male with multiple gunshot wounds, which would soon prove to be fatal.
The victim was soon identified as 47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, a Portuguese national who was among the world’s top nuclear researchers. Loureiro was the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center and a member of MIT’s departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics.
