MIT nuclear science professor shot, killed in Brookline home

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MIT nuclear science professor shot, killed in Brookline home

The victim was 47-year-old Nuno F.G. Loureiro

Colleen Cronin | ccronin@bostonherald.com  |  December 16, 2025 at 12:56 PM EST | UPDATED: 7:56 PM EST

A 47-year-old MIT professor has died after being shot in his Brookline home Monday night, according to law enforcement officials.

Officers from the Massachusetts State Police and Brookline Police Department responded to reports of a man shot on Gibb Street.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro was transported to a local hospital and succumbed to his injuries Tuesday morning.

Police are actively investigating the death as a homicide, according to the Norfolk DA’s office, writing in a statement, “No further information is being released at this time.”

The DA said Tuesday that no one was in custody for the shooting and that the investigation is continuing.

According to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s website, Loureiro was director of the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center as well as a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics.

“Sadly, I can confirm that Professor Nuno Loureiro, who died early this morning, was a current MIT faculty member,” said institute spokesperson Sarah McDonnell. “Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and all those who are grieving.  .  .  .

https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/12/16/mit-professor-shot-killed-in-brookline-home/

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Police investigate links between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor

Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles away

18 Dec 2025 17.15 EST


Police investigate links between Brown shooting and killing of MIT professor
Sources say person of interest identified in attack at university and death of prominent physicist 50 miles away

Associated Press
Thu 18 Dec 2025 17.15 EST
Last modified on Thu 18 Dec 2025 17.16 EST
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Authorities said Thursday that they’re looking into a connection between last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University and one two days later near Boston that killed a professor at another elite school, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

That is according to three people familiar with the matter who were not authorized to discuss an investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity. Two of the people said investigators had identified a person of interest in the shootings and were actively seeking that individual.

The attacker at Brown on Saturday killed two students and wounded nine others in a classroom in the school’s engineering building before getting away.

About 50 miles (80km) north, MIT professor Nuno FG Loureiro was gunned down in his home Monday night in the Boston suburb of Brookline. The 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist died at a hospital the next day.

The FBI previously said it knew of no links between the cases.

It has been nearly a week since the shooting at Brown. There have been other high-profile attacks in which it took days or longer to make an arrest or find those responsible  .  .  .

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/18/brown-university-shooting-suspect-mit-professor-link