MIT Professor Shot Dead at Home in Brookline: Nuno Loureiro Found With Multiple Gunshot Wounds

Professor Nuno Loureiro, an MIT fusion scientist shot and killed at his Brookline home on Monday night (Credit: MIT/WikiMedia Commons)

An MIT professor was shot and killed at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday night, prompting a major homicide investigation and shocking a community known for its safety.

Nuno Loureiro, 47, the director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was found with multiple gunshot wounds in the foyer of his apartment building on 15 December. He died in the hospital the following morning. Authorities have not yet made any arrests or announced a motive for the killing.