Neighbors of slain MIT professor stunned by killing

Neighbors successful the Boston-area assemblage wherever MIT prof Nuno Louriero was changeable to decease wrong his flat gathering earlier this week said they were stunned by the mysterious killing. 

Loureiro was gunned down astatine the entranceway to his Brookline flat connected Monday night, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said successful a statement. He was subsequently transported to a section hospital, wherever helium was pronounced dormant Tuesday morning. 

Less than 24 hours later, neighbors gathered extracurricular of Loureiro’s three-story flat gathering to wage their respects to the prof and explicit their interest implicit specified a convulsive enactment taking spot successful their usually quaint neighborhood. 

"It's scary to beryllium successful Brookline," Lloyd Rosenthal, a section resident, told Boston 25 News. "It's expected to beryllium safe, [but] nary one's talking."

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MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro, who was killed astatine his location connected Tuesday, Dec. 16. (Jake Belcher)

The Brookline Police Department and Norfolk County District Attorney’s Office are investigating Loureiro’s death, the Massachusetts State Police said successful a connection to Fox News Digital. However, nary suspects person been named. 

"I heard 3 large bangs," an unnamed neighbour told Boston 25 News. "I thought astatine archetypal it was idiosyncratic successful our flat kicking successful the doorway oregon something."

"I don't cognize what happened oregon wherefore it happened," neighbour Anne Greenwald told the outlet. "It's precise scary, though. We're surviving successful specified unspeakable times close present that it seems similar unit is conscionable happening everywhere."

Eurydice Hirsey, different Brookliner, told Fox News Digital she met Loureiro done his wife, Ines, and that the mates shares 3 children ranging successful property from simple schoolhouse to college. 

"We instrumentality [dance] classes unneurotic respective times a week," she said. "I conscionable saw her past night."

"It's a household that's feeling specified earthy horror... terror," said Hirsey. "And what bash you bash with thing that's indescribable?"

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Locals gathered successful Brookline, Massachusetts, connected Tuesday nighttime to mourn the nonaccomplishment of MIT prof Numo Louriero, who was murdered successful his flat connected Monday. (Andrea Margolis/Fox News Digital)

Hirsey's hubby added that the "only reply to coercion is simply a beardown civilian society."

"And successful the meantime, we look a batch of hatred and suffering," helium said. 

The renowned prof joined MIT successful 2016 and was appointed to the helm of the school’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center past year, wherever helium aimed to probe and grow cleanable vigor technology, according to The Associated Press. The halfway stands arsenic 1 of the school’s largest laboratories and had implicit 250 employees erstwhile Loureiro was selected arsenic its leader, the school’s website stated. 

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A assemblage of radical holding candles stitchery extracurricular the location of Massachusetts Institute of Technology prof Nuno F.G. Loureiro successful Brookline, Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Leah Willingham)

Speaking to reporters connected Tuesday, Ted Docks, peculiar cause successful complaint of FBI Boston, said investigators person recovered nary transportation betwixt Loureiro’s decease and the shooting astatine Brown University – located astir 50 miles distant – that near 2 students dormant and 9 injured implicit the weekend.

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MIT Professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro shakes hands with Rafael M. Grossi. (rafaelmgrossi via X)

Loureiro was an accomplished researcher and leaves down his woman and 3 children. He studied physics astatine the Instituto Superior Técnico successful Lisbon, Portugal, successful 2000, and aboriginal earned a doctorate successful physics astatine Imperial College London successful 2005. 

Loureiro completed postdoctoral enactment astatine the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory from 2005 to 2007, and astatine the UKAEA Culham Centre for Fusion Energy from 2007 to 2009. Before joining MIT successful 2016, Loureiro held a probe presumption astatine the Institute for Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion astatine IST Lisbon. 

The Brookline Police Department, Norfolk District Attorney’s Office and Massachusetts State Police did not instantly respond to Fox News Digital's petition for comment. 

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"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."

In a connection posted to societal media, U.S. Ambassador to Portugal John J. Arrigo added, "I widen my deepest condolences to the family, friends, and colleagues of Nuno Loureiro, who led MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. We grant his life, his enactment successful science, and his enduring contributions." 

Fox News Digital's Tessa Hoyos and Andrea Margolis contributed to this report.