Overview
- Brookline police responded around 8:30 p.m. Monday to reports of gunfire at an apartment on Gibbs Street and found a man shot multiple times.
- The victim was identified as 47-year-old Nuno F. G. Loureiro, an MIT professor and director of the university’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
- He was transported by ambulance to a Boston hospital and was pronounced dead Tuesday morning, authorities said.
- The Norfolk County district attorney’s office described an active homicide investigation involving Massachusetts State Police, Brookline police and MIT Police, and said no one is in custody.
- Neighbors reported hearing three loud bangs, and MIT said it is providing support to its community while withholding further details to protect the investigation.