{"id":354190,"date":"2025-12-18T22:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354190\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:41:09","slug":"watch-live-police-to-give-update-on-brown-university-shooting-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/354190\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch live: Police to give update on Brown University shooting suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Authorities looking at possible link to MIT professor&#8217;s killingpublished at 21:47 GMT<\/p>\n<p>21:47 GMT<\/p>\n<p>      <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"People walk on the campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/2d14719b-8c91-47aa-adea-73c9fd6912fa.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Law enforcement officials are investigating a possible connection between the mass shooting at Brown University last Saturday and the killing of an MIT nuclear science and engineering professor, CBS News, the BBC&#8217;s US partner reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nuno F Gomes Loureiro, 47, from Portugal, was shot &#8220;multiple times&#8221; at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday and died on Tuesday morning in hospital, according to local police and MIT officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Loureiro joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology&#8217;s faculty in 2016 and was named director of its Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The centre&#8217;s preceding director, Dennis Whyte, described Loureiro as both a brilliant scientist and a brilliant person.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He shone a bright light as a mentor, friend, teacher, colleague and leader, and was universally admired for his articulate, compassionate manner,&#8221; Mr Whyte told MIT News.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read more of our coverage about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/cly08y25688o\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nuno Loureiro here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"White page on glass door with note addressed to neighbours that asks them to put a candle or light in their windows\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/ff139ac9-fd88-4cb2-875a-427e3debb284.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" class=\"ssrcss-11yxrdo-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty ImagesImage caption, <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A notice taped to the front door of Loureiro&#8217;s apartment building<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Authorities looking at possible link to MIT professor&#8217;s killingpublished at 21:47 GMT 21:47 GMT Image source, AFP via&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":250053,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":{"0":"post-354190","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}