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MIT professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was killed successful a shooting astatine his location successful Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the schoolhouse confirmed. Loureiro, a atomic subject and engineering prof from Portugal, was 47 years old.
A Brookline constabulary spokesperson said officers responded to a telephone for gunshots astatine an flat connected Gibbs Street astatine astir 8:30 p.m.
"A unfortunate was located who had been changeable aggregate times," Brookline constabulary lawman superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV.
Loureiro was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital, wherever helium died Tuesday morning. No different accusation astir the shooting was instantly released and authorities did not accidental if they are looking for a suspect. Campbell said nary 1 is successful custody.
"This is an progressive and ongoing homicide investigation," Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey's bureau said successful a statement.
A neighbour who did not privation to beryllium identified said helium heard "three large bangs" Monday evening.
"I thought astatine archetypal it was idiosyncratic successful our flat kicking successful a doorway oregon thing truthful I called the neighbors and they said nary they thought it was gunshots," helium said.
The country of the Brookline shooting.
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Last May, Loureiro was named director of MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center. An nonfiction connected the school's website described it arsenic "one of MIT's largest labs" with much than 250 full-time researchers, students and unit moving crossed 7 buildings.
"Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and each those who are grieving," an MIT spokesperson said successful a statement. "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."
The MIT nonfiction said Loureiro is known for his probe connected however plasma works, "particularly turbulence and the physics underpinning solar flares and different astronomical phenomena." He was besides studying however to harness cleanable "fusion power" to combat clime change.
Loureiro had been with the prestigious assemblage successful Cambridge since 2016.
"Professionally I'm wholly overwhelmed with what MIT is," helium said successful a 2017 interview. "You work astir it and you speech to radical astir it, but earlier you've experienced it, I don't deliberation you rather recognize the benignant of spot it is."
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