MIT Grieves Shooting Death of Renowned Director of Plasma Science Center (theguardian.com)
(Wednesday December 17, 2025 @10:30PM (BeauHD)
from the rest-in-peace dept.)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/12/17/2315236/mit-grieves-shooting-death-of-renowned-director-of-plasma-science-center
- Source link: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/mit-shooting-death-nuno-loureiro
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Guardian:
> The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is [1]grieving after the "shocking" shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to officials. Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, had been shot multiple times at his home in the affluent Boston suburb of Brookline on Monday night when police said they received a call to investigate. Emergency responders brought Loureiro to a hospital, and the award-winning scientist was pronounced dead there Tuesday morning, the Norfolk county district attorney's office [2]said in a statement .
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> The Boston Globe [3]reported speaking with a neighbor of Loureiro who heard gunshots, found the academic lying on his back in the foyer of their building and then called for help alongside the victim's wife. The statement from the Norfolk district attorney's office said an investigation into Loureiro's slaying remained ongoing later Tuesday. But the agency did not immediately release any details about a possible suspect or motive in the killing, which gained widespread attention across academic circles, the US and in Loureiro's native Portugal.
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> Portugal's minster of foreign affairs announced Loureiro's death in a public hearing Tuesday, as CNN [4]reported . Separately, MIT president Sally Kornbluth issued a university-wide letter expressing "great sadness" over the death of Loureiro, whose survivors include his wife. "This shocking loss for our community comes in a period of disturbing violence in many other places," said Kornbluth's letter, released after a weekend marred by deadly mass shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island -- about 50 miles away from MIT -- as well as on Australia's Bondi Beach. The letter concluded by providing a list of mental health resources, saying: "It's entirely natural to feel the need for comfort and support."
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/mit-shooting-death-nuno-loureiro
[2] https://www.facebook.com/NorfolkDistrictAttorneysOffice/posts/1373238251502467?ref=embed_post
[3] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/metro/brookline-shooting-gibbs-street/
[4] https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/nuno-loureiro/portugues-assassinado/fisico-portugues-assassinado-a-tiro-em-boston/20251216/69417549d34e2bd5c6d52bb9#google_vignette
> The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) community is [1]grieving after the "shocking" shooting death of the director of its plasma science and fusion center, according to officials. Nuno FG Loureiro, 47, had been shot multiple times at his home in the affluent Boston suburb of Brookline on Monday night when police said they received a call to investigate. Emergency responders brought Loureiro to a hospital, and the award-winning scientist was pronounced dead there Tuesday morning, the Norfolk county district attorney's office [2]said in a statement .
>
> The Boston Globe [3]reported speaking with a neighbor of Loureiro who heard gunshots, found the academic lying on his back in the foyer of their building and then called for help alongside the victim's wife. The statement from the Norfolk district attorney's office said an investigation into Loureiro's slaying remained ongoing later Tuesday. But the agency did not immediately release any details about a possible suspect or motive in the killing, which gained widespread attention across academic circles, the US and in Loureiro's native Portugal.
>
> Portugal's minster of foreign affairs announced Loureiro's death in a public hearing Tuesday, as CNN [4]reported . Separately, MIT president Sally Kornbluth issued a university-wide letter expressing "great sadness" over the death of Loureiro, whose survivors include his wife. "This shocking loss for our community comes in a period of disturbing violence in many other places," said Kornbluth's letter, released after a weekend marred by deadly mass shootings at Brown University in Rhode Island -- about 50 miles away from MIT -- as well as on Australia's Bondi Beach. The letter concluded by providing a list of mental health resources, saying: "It's entirely natural to feel the need for comfort and support."
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/dec/17/mit-shooting-death-nuno-loureiro
[2] https://www.facebook.com/NorfolkDistrictAttorneysOffice/posts/1373238251502467?ref=embed_post
[3] https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/12/16/metro/brookline-shooting-gibbs-street/
[4] https://cnnportugal.iol.pt/nuno-loureiro/portugues-assassinado/fisico-portugues-assassinado-a-tiro-em-boston/20251216/69417549d34e2bd5c6d52bb9#google_vignette
No cameras? (Score:3)
by backslashdot ( 95548 )
What's this BS lately where people can freely shoot others and there's no camera coverage whatsoever, no video of any suspects .. nothing. Brown university has no cameras and apparently neither do "affluent" suburbs in Boston. I hope the privacy lunatics are happy.
I suspect somebody (Score:1)
...couldn't handle their bad grade.