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A prof astatine the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally changeable astatine his location adjacent Boston, and authorities said Tuesday (December 16, 2025) they had launched a homicide investigation.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old prof of physics, atomic subject and engineering, was changeable Monday (December 15) nighttime astatine his location successful Brookline, Massachusetts. He died astatine a section infirmary connected Tuesday (December 16), the Norfolk District Attorney's Office said successful a statement.
The Prosecutor's bureau said nary suspects had been taken into custody arsenic of Tuesday (December 17) afternoon, and that its probe was ongoing.
Loureiro, who joined MIT successful 2016, had been named past twelvemonth to pb MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, wherever helium hoped to beforehand cleanable vigor technology. The centre, 1 of MIT's largest labs, had much than 250 radical moving crossed 7 buildings erstwhile helium took the helm.
Loureiro was from Portugal, wherever helium did his undergraduate studies earlier earning a doctorate successful London, according to MIT. He was a researcher astatine an institute for atomic fusion successful Lisbon earlier joining MIT, it said.
“He shone a agleam airy arsenic a mentor, friend, teacher, workfellow and leader, and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner,” Dennis Whyte, an engineering prof who antecedently led MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Centre, told a field publication.
The homicide probe successful Brookline comes arsenic constabulary successful Providence, Rhode Island, astir 50 miles away, proceed to hunt for the gunman who killed 2 students and injured 9 others astatine Brown University connected Saturday.
A 22-year-old pupil astatine Boston University who lives adjacent Loureiro's flat successful Brookline told The Boston Globe she heard 3 large noises Monday evening and feared it was gunfire. “I had ne'er heard thing truthful loud, truthful I assumed they were gunshots,” Liv Schachner was quoted arsenic saying. “It's hard to grasp. It conscionable seems similar it keeps happening.” Some of Loureiro's students visited his home, an flat successful a three-story ceramic building, Tuesday day to wage their respects, the Globe reported.
The U.S. Ambassador to Portugal, John J Arrigo, expressed his condolences successful an online station that honoured him for his enactment and contributions to science.
“It's not hyperbole to accidental MIT is wherever you spell to find solutions to humanity's biggest problems,” Loureiro said erstwhile helium was named to pb the plasma subject laboratory past year. “Fusion vigor volition alteration the people of quality history.”
