Overview
- Officers responded around 8:30 p.m. Monday to Gibbs Street and found Nuno F. G. Loureiro with multiple gunshot wounds; he died Tuesday morning at a Boston hospital.
- Loureiro, 47, led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center and was a professor of nuclear science and engineering and physics, having joined the university in 2016.
- The Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office described the case as active, with Brookline police, Massachusetts State Police and federal partners assisting and releasing few operational details.
- No arrests have been announced, and authorities have not disclosed a motive or identified any suspect.
- The FBI said there is no known connection to the recent Brown University shooting, as MIT and diplomatic leaders offered condolences and support to mourners.