Overview
- Brookline police responded to reports of gunfire on Gibbs Street just after 8:30 p.m. on Dec. 15 and found Loureiro with multiple gunshot wounds.
- Norfolk County prosecutors describe an active homicide investigation with assistance from Brookline police and Massachusetts State Police, and no one in custody.
- MIT confirmed Loureiro, 47, led the Plasma Science and Fusion Center and held appointments in Nuclear Science and Engineering and Physics after joining the faculty in 2016.
- U.S. and Portuguese officials offered condolences, and students and community members gathered near his residence to pay respects.
- Authorities and the FBI have noted no known link to the separate Brown University campus shooting investigated elsewhere in New England.