Investigators are probing the shooting death of a celebrated Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor in his Brookline home overnight Monday.
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was shot at his home Monday night at about 9 p.m., WCVB reported. He was taken to a hospital, where he died hours later.
“Professor Nuno Loureiro, who died early this morning, was a current MIT faculty member in the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, as well as the Director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center,” the school said in a statement.
Loureiro’s neighbors told WCVB they heard multiple gunshots Monday evening.
“We heard a really loud noise I thought it sounded like a crashing noise, but my husband heard it and he said it sounded like gunshots,” said Anne Greenwald. “It’s terrible. I mean I don’t know what happened or why it happened but it’s very scary. We’re living in such scary times right now, but it seems like violence is just happening everywhere.”
Police have not said if they have identified a suspect. The investigation is being conducted by the Norfolk County district attorney’s office, Massachusetts State Police, Brookline police and MIT police.
Loureiro joined MIT in 2016 and joined the Plasma Science and Fusion Center last year. He was a researcher at a nuclear fusion institute in his native Portugal before joining MIT.
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[Featured image: Nuno Loureiro/Jake Belcher/MIT]