MIT professor shot dead in Brookline home, Massachusetts State Police launch homicide investigation

Homicide detectives are investigating aft a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) laboratory manager and prof was recovered changeable to decease successful his Brookline home.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, was taken to a section infirmary Monday nighttime with evident gunshot wounds aft the Brookline Police Department received a study of a antheral changeable astatine his home, according to a connection from the Norfolk District Attorney's Office.

Loureiro was pronounced dormant Tuesday morning, the territory attorney's bureau confirmed.

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An MIT prof and laboratory manager was pronounced dormant aft being changeable astatine his Massachusetts home, according to authorities. Homicide detectives are investigating. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

MIT's communications bureau said Loureiro was a existent MIT module subordinate successful the departments of Nuclear Science & Engineering and Physics, arsenic good arsenic the Director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. 

"Our deepest sympathies are with his family, students, colleagues, and each those who are grieving," MIT spokesperson Kimberly Allen wrote successful a connection to Fox News. "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."

MIT confirmed the unfortunate was a prof astatine the university. (iStock)

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Officials said the lawsuit is an "active and ongoing" homicide investigation, led by the Massachusetts State Police.

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MIT said it volition not merchandise immoderate further accusation "out of respect for the integrity of this ongoing investigation."

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