MIT professor shot, killed in Brookline home: What we know about Boston-area attack

BROOKLINE, Mass. – Authorities are investigating the decease of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology prof aft helium was recovered fatally changeable wrong his Boston-area flat earlier this week. 

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, died astatine a infirmary connected Tuesday greeting aft being changeable connected Monday nighttime wrong his flat successful Brookline, Massachusetts, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said successful a statement. 

Officers with the Brookline Police Department arrived astatine the three-story flat gathering aft receiving reports of a antheral changeable astatine his home, prosecutors said. Loureiro was pronounced dormant Tuesday morning. 

Here is what we cognize astir the investigation:

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Undated record photograph of Nuno Loureiro, a prof of atomic subject and engineering and of physics astatine MIT. (Jake Belcher for MIT)

Shooting rocks Boston suburb

The shooting took spot successful Brookline, an affluent suburb a fewer miles extracurricular of Boston. It is being investigated arsenic a homicide, and nary suspects person been taken into custody. 

The Brookline Police Department and Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office are investigating Loureiro’s death, the Massachusetts State Police said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. 

"This remains an progressive and ongoing homicide investigation," Brookline Chief of Police Jennifer Paster said successful a societal media post. "In bid to support the integrity of the investigation, we are constricted successful the accusation we tin stock astatine this clip and inquire for the community’s knowing and patience. While we analyse this incident, we volition person dedicated patrol cars, officers, and unmarked units successful the Gibbs Street neighborhood."

The Brookline Police Department did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

Louise Cohen, who is Loureiro’s upstairs neighbor, was lighting a menorah candle connected Monday astatine astir 8:30 p.m. erstwhile she heard aggregate gunshots, The Boston Globe reported. 

Upon opening her door, Cohen reportedly witnessed Loureiro lying connected his backmost wrong the flat building’s entranceway and called 911, on with different neighbour and Loureiro’s wife.

"I can’t slumber now," Cohen said, according to the Globe. "This household is truthful amazing. I can’t ideate anyone wanting to termination him."

Questions astir Brown University shooting

Loureiro’s decease comes arsenic authorities successful Providence, Rhode Island – located astir 50 miles distant – are inactive searching for the gunman who killed 2 Brown University students and injured 9 others during a people survey league connected Saturday. 

However, Ted Docks, peculiar cause successful complaint of FBI Boston, told reporters connected Tuesday that, "It seems that there's nary connection," betwixt the 2 crimes. 

The FBI did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital’s petition for comment. 

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Locals gathered successful Brookline, Massachusetts, connected Tuesday nighttime to mourn the nonaccomplishment of MIT prof Nuno Loureiro, who died aft helium was changeable successful his flat connected Monday. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

Professor makes people astatine MIT

Loureiro joined MIT successful 2016 and was appointed to pb the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center past year, wherever helium aimed to probe and grow cleanable vigor technology, according to The Associated Press. The halfway stands arsenic 1 of the school’s largest laboratories and had implicit 250 researchers, unit members and students erstwhile Loureiro was selected arsenic its leader, the school’s website stated. 

On Tuesday night, a assemblage of 2 twelve mourners gathered to commemorate Loureiro astatine his location successful Brookline, galore of whom were crying.

They held candles and hugged 1 another, little than 24 hours aft the MIT prof was recovered changeable astatine the precise aforesaid location.

A Brookline High School pupil told Fox News Digital that helium met Loureiro erstwhile helium was successful mediate school. Both helium and Loureiro's girl attended the aforesaid karate class, and Loureiro would thrust the 2 together.

The pupil said helium saw the prof astir each different play for a time.

"He was ever precise welcoming," the pupil said. "I utilized to person occupation being connected clip backmost then, and helium would ever beryllium precise gracious and forgiving. He was precise inviting."

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"He was conscionable a large guy, precise respectful, precise nice... they're conscionable a large family, really, truly large people," 1 mourner said. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

The precocious schoolhouse pupil besides said that astatine 1 point, helium was truly funny successful politics, and "loved talking to [Loureiro] astir it."

Eurydice Hirsey, different Brookliner, told Fox News Digital that she knew Loureiro done his wife, Ines. The mates shared 3 children, Hirsey said, who scope successful property from simple schoolhouse to college.

"We instrumentality [dance] classes unneurotic respective times a week," she said. "I conscionable saw her past night."

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One mourner lamented the magnitude of "hate and suffering" successful the satellite aft caller convulsive attacks successful the U.S. and internationally. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

"She's ever [a] precise wonderful, upbeat, smart, comic woman. And past I recovered retired [about the shooting at] 10 o'clock this greeting from 1 of the radical successful the class."

"It's a household that's feeling specified earthy horror... terror," said Hirsey. "And what bash you bash with thing that's indescribable?"

Hirsey's hubby added that the "only reply to coercion is simply a beardown civilian society."

"And successful the meantime, we look a batch of hatred and suffering," helium said. 

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Locals gathered successful Brookline, Massachusetts, connected Tuesday nighttime to mourn the nonaccomplishment of MIT prof Nuno Loureiro, who was recovered changeable successful his flat connected Monday. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

On Tuesday, members of the section assemblage and chap MIT module began speaking retired to explicit their daze surrounding Loureiro’s death.

"Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and each those who are grieving," MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen wrote successful a connection to Fox News. "Focused outreach and conversations are taking spot wrong our assemblage to connection attraction and enactment for those who knew Prof. Loureiro, and a connection volition beryllium shared with our wider community."

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MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro. (rafaelmgrossi via X)

According to Loureiro’s module page, the renowned prof studied physics astatine the Instituto Superior Técnico successful Lisbon, Portugal successful 2000, and aboriginal went connected to gain a doctorate successful physics astatine Imperial College London, U.K., successful 2005.

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Additionally, helium completed postdoctoral enactment astatine the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 2005 to 2007, and astatine the UKAEA Culham Centre for Fusion Energy from 2007 to 2009. Before joining MIT successful 2016, Loureiro held a probe presumption astatine the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion astatine IST Lisbon. 

In a connection posted to societal media, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John J. Arrigo added, "I widen my deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Nuno Loureiro, who led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. We grant his life, his enactment successful science, and his enduring contributions." 

Fox News Digital's Brooke Curto contributed to this report.