{"id":72809,"date":"2025-12-16T23:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72809\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T23:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T23:41:16","slug":"nuno-loureiro-an-mit-professor-found-shot-dead-in-mass-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/72809\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuno Loureiro \u2014 an MIT professor \u2014 found shot dead in Mass. home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts neighborhood Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying.<\/p>\n<p>Nuno Loureiro, 47, was found inside the Brookline house by police responding to reports of a man shot around 8:30 p.m., the Norfolk District Attorney\u2019s Office announced on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>Loureiro was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37944480\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/newspress-collage-nsauvnfp3-1765915051576.jpg\" alt=\"An image collage containing 1 images, Image 1 shows Nuno Loureiro, an MIT professor, wearing glasses and a plaid shirt, looking towards the viewer\" class=\"wp-image-37944480\"  \/>Prominent MIT nuclear science professor Nuno Loureiro, 47 was shot and killed inside his home Monday night, with police mum on details of the tragic slaying.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.75945017;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37944617\" width=\"1024\" height=\"582\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/3862443-authorities-confirmed-professor-nuno-117449770.jpg\" alt=\"Police cars with flashing blue lights and yellow crime scene tape block off a street with houses at night.\" class=\"wp-image-37944617\"  \/>Loureiro was found inside the Gibbs Street home by police responding to reports of a man shot around 8:30 p.m. NBC 10 Boston<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an active and ongoing homicide investigation,\u201d the DA said. \u201cNo further information is being released at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Brookline Police Deputy Superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV News that the victim \u201chad been shot multiple times,\u201d but would not release further details.<\/p>\n<p>The death follows a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/12\/14\/us-news\/person-of-interest-idd-in-brown-university-shooting-that-killed-two-injured-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">mass shooting at Brown University<\/a>, just 50 miles away, in which two students were killed. The suspect is still on the loose.<\/p>\n<p>At a press briefing Tuesday, law enforcement officials said the two shootings were not connected. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt this time there seems to be no connection as it related to that particular incident,\u201d FBI Special Agent in Charge Ted Docks told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Loureiro, a native of Portugal, was a member of the school\u2019s departments of Nuclear Science &amp; Engineering and Physics, and director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, one of the university\u2019s largest labs with more than 250 full-time researchers, a school spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and all those who are grieving,\u201d they told The Post. \u201cFocused outreach and conversations are taking place within our community to offer care and support for those who knew Prof. Loureiro, and a message will be shared with our wider community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The spokesperson said the investigation is being led by state police, the Norfolk DA, Brookline and MIT police, and said the school would not discuss the shooting further \u201cout of respect for the integrity of this ongoing investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A prominent nuclear science professor at MIT was shot and killed inside his home in a swanky Massachusetts&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":72810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1692,303,1015,11539,37006,9,11,10,3980,58],"class_list":{"0":"post-72809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-colleges-and-universities","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-deaths","11":"tag-massachusetts","12":"tag-mit","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-headlines","15":"tag-new-york-news","16":"tag-shootings","17":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}