MIT Professor Fatally Shot at Home

MIT Professor Fatally Shot at Home
Nuno Loureiro in a file photo. Jake Belcher/MIT via AP
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BROOKLINE, Mass.—A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston, and authorities said Tuesday they had launched a homicide investigation.

Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old physicist and fusion scientist, was shot Monday night at his home in Brookline, Massachusetts. He died at a local hospital on Tuesday, the Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said in a statement.