Posted on 12/16/2025 7:45:48 PM PST by Red Badger
An MIT professor was fatally shot in his Brookline, Massachusetts, home on Monday night.
47-year-old Nuno Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor, was shot multiple times, according to police.
Loureiro was transported to a Boston hospital and died Tuesday morning.
A neighbor told CBS News that they heard three loud bangs on Monday night.
“I thought at first it was somebody in our apartment kicking in a door or something so I called the neighbors and they said no they thought it was gunshots,” a neighbor told CBS News.
A suspect is not in custody
CBS News reported:
MIT professor Nuno Loureiro was killed in a shooting at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts Monday night, the school confirmed. Loureiro, a nuclear science and engineering professor from Portugal, was 47 years old.
A Brookline police spokesperson said officers responded to a call for gunshots at an apartment on Gibbs Street at about 8:30 p.m.
“A victim was located who had been shot multiple times,” Brookline police deputy superintendent Paul Campbell told WBZ-TV.
Loureiro was taken by ambulance to a Boston hospital, where he died Tuesday morning. No other information about the shooting was immediately released and authorities did not say if they are looking for a suspect. Campbell said no one is in custody.
“This is an active and ongoing homicide investigation,” Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrissey’s office said in a statement.
Loureiro was recently appointed director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
“Loureiro is taking the helm of one of MIT’s largest labs: more than 250 full-time researchers, staff members, and students work and study in seven buildings with 250,000 square feet of lab space,” MIT said earlier this year.
“A theoretical physicist and fusion scientist, Loureiro joined MIT as a faculty member in 2016, and was appointed deputy director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center (PSFC) in 2022. Loureiro succeeds Dennis Whyte, who stepped down at the end of 2023 to return to teaching and research,” MIT said.
BREAKING…
FROM BRAVE AI:
Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), was fatally shot at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts, on Monday, December 15, 2025, and pronounced dead on Tuesday, December 16, 2025.
The incident is being investigated as a homicide by the Brookline Police Department and the Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office, with no arrests made as of December 17, 2025.
Loureiro was a professor in MIT’s Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, and served as the director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center from May 2024 until his death.
He joined MIT’s faculty in 2016 and was promoted to full professor in 2021, becoming deputy director of the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in 2022.
A theoretical physicist specializing in plasma dynamics, magnetic reconnection, and fusion energy, Loureiro was recognized with numerous awards, including the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers in January 2025.
He was born in Viseu, Portugal, in 1977, earned his PhD from Imperial College London in 2005, and held research positions at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory and the Culham Centre for Fusion Energy before joining MIT.
MIT President Sally Kornbluth and colleagues described him as a brilliant scientist, mentor, and leader, expressing deep sorrow over his loss.
The investigation remains ongoing, and authorities have stated there is no current evidence linking the shooting to the recent Brown University incident.
“MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center“
Could this have been a professional hit to set the US/Europe back in fusion research?
IDK but it seems a possibility.
From wikipedia...
“Loureiro was born in Viseu, a small city in central Portugal, to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1977.[3][4] He studied physics at the Instituto Superior Técnico (IST) in Lisbon, graduating in 2000 with an undergraduate and master’s degree. He attended Imperial College London and obtained a doctorate in physics in 2005, with a dissertation on tearing modes in plasma. His early research focused on magnetohydrodynamics and astrophysical plasmas.[5] “
Could be same terrorist that killed at Brown...............
Quite possible..........Or China or Russia..........
Is he married? Was anyone home with him?
Another one?
Or, to throw a monkeywrench into the mix of these very good observations (maybe mine isn’t)
he looks to be of that totally ‘other’ persuasion, could be a domestic dispute?
and it IS Massachussetts.
He wasn’t in his apartment.
“After she opened her door, she saw Loureiro lying on his back inside the entrance to the building. She, another neighbor, and Loureiro’s wife immediately called 911.”
Boston Globe.
Nuclear scientist ... Iran.
Perhaps.
Or North Korea or Iran.
Good questions.
He was JEWISH.
The Antfa global intifada strikes again:
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/general/2487170/jewish-pro-israel-mit-professor-shot-and-killed-police-investigating.html
They kill anyone who’s conservative/right activists, Jews and Christains.
And a lot of the killers have been either trans or leftist gays.
I was wondering....
Wow - you found the common thread
I am gonna say a possible scenario.
Muslim/Iranian shooters activated for general terror fear, and also while this is going on, specific strategic American targets.
Or it could have been because he was Jewish-a lot of anti-Jewish violence happening in big blue cities like Boston right now. Or it could have been a personal or professional feud of some sort-many scientists embrace professional jealousy and hold grudges to the point of violence...
I seriously question why China or Russia would off an American theoretical physicist and fusion scientist at MIT-even if he was head of a big lab-I’m sure they have plenty of their own with equally fine credentials in their own countries. I really don’t see a spy drama or conspiracy there...
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