MA - MIT physicist Nuno F.G. Loureiro, 47, Fatally Shot at Home, Dec 15 2025, Brookline MA

[Inthedetails]

It sounds melodramatic, but I am a bit...nervous about... the fact that we already have an unknown shooter attacking an educational institution in New England, and then this also happens. Completely MOO.

I think we're all wondering.

Could be connected. Then again, could very well not be connected.

jmo

 

[PatLaurel]

News from a "credible" Portuguese MSM source:

"14-year-old daughter of the Portuguese physicist shot dead in Boston witnessed the death of her father"

Filha de 14 anos do físico português morto a tiro em Boston assistiu à morte do pai

 

[Inthedetails]

News from a "credible" Portuguese MSM source:

"14-year-old daughter of the Portuguese physicist shot dead in Boston witnessed the death of her father"

Filha de 14 anos do físico português morto a tiro em Boston assistiu à morte do pai

Oh no.

My heart goes out to her.

jmo

 

[detective.moon]

I think we're all wondering.

Could be connected. Then again, could very well not be connected.

jmo

MIT Professor Nuno Loureiro Is Fatally Shot in His Brookline, Mass., Home

The professor, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, was pronounced dead at a hospital on Tuesday morning. The authorities said they had opened a homicide investigation.

www.nytimes.com

Ted Docks, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I. in Boston, said there “seems to be no connection” between the fatal shooting of Dr. Loureiro and a shooting at Brown University on Saturday that killed two student

 

[PatLaurel]

News from a "credible" Portuguese MSM source:

"14-year-old daughter of the Portuguese physicist shot dead in Boston witnessed the death of her father"

Filha de 14 anos do físico português morto a tiro em Boston assistiu à morte do pai

I used credible in quotes because CM sometimes doesn’t cite any sources in early reports. CM is also a bit sensationalist but is the best MSM when it comes to covering crime and investigative journalism. All of this is to say that it was also mentioned that the possible homicide may be related to a possible scientific discovery made by Nuno Loureiro.

MOO JMO

 

[Oakie]

Dr. Loureiro was one of the few people in academia who was willing to speak publicly about the impending magnetic pole shift of the earth. This is something the CIA classified, and tried to keep secret, for decades. There may be a connection here.

 

[wibbleflea]

Dr. Loureiro was one of the few people in academia who was willing to speak publicly about the impending magnetic pole shift of the earth. This is something the CIA classified, and tried to keep secret, for decades. There may be a connection here.

Somewhat linked, though not specifically to the movement of Earth's magnetic poles:

What MIT physicist Nuno Loureiro was working on before fatal shooting

MIT professor and plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro was fatally shot in Massachusetts. Here’s what to know about his career and research.

www.newsweek.com

 

[Snoopster]

Here is a video of Nuno Loureiro talking about plasma dynamics.

Prof. Nuno Loureiro: Modern Perspectives and Challenges in Magnetic Reconnection

 

[ChatteringBirds]

Sincere condolences to his family and friends.

I think this must be a personal grudge, maybe someone who feels "wronged," that some injustice has occurred in their life. They went to his home, while his family was there. So cruel and cold.

There is hopefully a lot of CCTV in the neighborhood...

 

[Snoopster]

rbbm

Nuno Loureiro family: All about slain MIT professor's wife and children

Nuno Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally shot at his home near Boston on Monday night.

www.hindustantimes.com

''Nuno Loureiro is married with kids. Sally Kornbluth, president of MIT, noted “In the face of this shocking loss, our hearts go out to his wife and their family and to his many devoted students, friends and colleagues,” in the statement released after his death.

However, Loureiro's wife's name remains unknown for now. ABC-affiliate WCVB meanwhile reported neighbors saying that Loureiro lived in the Brookline home with his wife and children. A person who lived in the neighborhood for 40 years, described the Loureiro family to CBS News saying “He had a young family, they went to school here.”

Not much else is known about the slain professor's children either, except that they attended school locally. Eurydice Hirsey, meanwhile, is a family friend, the publication further noted. “It's a family that is feeling such raw horror. I am sure terror and what do you do with something that is indescribable,” he said.

Loureiro was reportedly born in Portugal to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1977.''

pulling out this quote you posted from the article : "Loureiro was reportedly born in Portugal to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1977."


I noticed that an apartment on the 2nd floor had a "Stand with Israel" sign in their window. (google street view from 2022)
I don't know if the Loureiro family lives on the second floor, but one other possibility could be a hate crime? It's a stretch, but possible?
Just spit-balling here as there could be many other motives.

 

[StJohn]

Sincere condolences to his family and friends.

I think this must be a personal grudge, maybe someone who feels "wronged," that some injustice has occurred in their life. They went to his home, while his family was there. So cruel and cold.

There is hopefully a lot of CCTV in the neighborhood...

At first I thought it must be related to his research, which could lead to major breakthroughs in replacing fossil fuel energy. But the fact that he was murdered at his home does make it seem more personal. Also odd that the location is not that far from the Brown U shooting, but investigators have said they don’t believe there is a connection.

 

[detective.moon]

pulling out this quote you posted from the article : "Loureiro was reportedly born in Portugal to a Sephardic Jewish family in 1977."


I noticed that an apartment on the 2nd floor had a "Stand with Israel" sign in their window. (google street view from 2022)
I don't know if the Loureiro family lives on the second floor, but one other possibility could be a hate crime? It's a stretch, but possible?
Just spit-balling here as there could be many other motives.

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i think him being from a sephardic jewish family was something someone added to his wikipedia page yesterday, and it was later removed again. jmo because i don’t think msm has reported about this, but i think this might have been misinformation.

 

[Snoopster]

i think him being from a sephardic jewish family was something someone added to his wikipedia page yesterday, and it was later removed again. jmo because i don’t think msm has reported about this, but i think this might have been misinformation.

Maybe not misinformation....

Israel examines if Iran had role in killing of scientist | The Jerusalem Post

Israeli officials are examining intelligence from recent days that suggests an Iranian connection to the murder of Prof. Nuno Loureiro

Prof. Loureiro, who had previously spoken out in favor of Israel, was a 47-year-old Portuguese-born world-renowned plasma and nuclear fusion researcher.

 

[Snoopster]

Just a tid bit to add here....but the Brown professor that was killed taught Jewish studies. And that event happened on the same day as the Bondi killings, and a couple of days later this professor is killed.
All during Hannukah season.

Of course other possible motives in this particular case are:

- family (financial, romantic, feud, jealousy, etc.) We don't know enough about the family to understand risks/dynamics. Is one of his children old enough to date? Does he have a jealous sibling? Does his wife have an old jealous ex? Was he having an affair? Etc., etc.
- local community member (aggrieved neighbor, local business)
- daily work (aggrieved student, colleague, jealous researcher in same field)
- industry espionage (related to fusion work)
- geopolitical espionage (related to Iran/USA/Israel/Russia, etc.)


ETA: as pointed out below (thank you @LAhiker !) the professor who taught Jewish studies at Brown was NOT killed. I had my 'facts' wrong.

 

[LAhiker]

Just a tid bit to add here....but the Brown professor that was killed taught Jewish studies. And that event happened on the same day as the Bondi killings, and a couple of days later this professor is killed.
All during Hannukah season.

Of course other possible motives in this particular case are:

- family (financial, romantic, feud, jealousy, etc.) We don't know enough about the family to understand risks/dynamics. Is one of his children old enough to date? Does he have a jealous sibling? Does his wife have an old jealous ex? Was he having an affair? Etc., etc.
- local community member (aggrieved neighbor, local business)
- daily work (aggrieved student, colleague, jealous researcher in same field)
- industry espionage (related to fusion work)
- geopolitical espionage (related to Iran/USA/Israel/Russia, etc.)
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If you're referring to the recent shooting on the Brown University campus, the professor for that class, Rachel Friedberg, was not killed. Two students were killed during a review session for the class, which was an introductory Economics class ECON0110: Principles of Economics). (One wasn't a student in the class but was just hanging out with some students who were.)

The review session targeted in the Brown University shooting was being taught by a teaching assistant rather than by the professor herself. That doesn't mean there might not be some religious motive. But as I write this, the shooter is still at large and their motive is unknown.

Thank you for listing other possible motives in the Nuno Loureiro murder.

JMO

 

[Snoopster]

If you're referring to the recent shooting on the Brown University campus, the professor for that class, Rachel Friedberg, was not killed. Two students were killed during a review session for the class, which was an introductory Economics class ECON0110: Principles of Economics). (One wasn't a student in the class but was just hanging out with some students who were.)

The review session targeted in the Brown University shooting was being taught by a teaching assistant rather than by the professor herself. That doesn't mean there might not be some religious motive. But as I write this, the shooter is still at large and their motive is unknown.

Thank you for listing other possible motives in the Nuno Loureiro murder.

JMO

Thank you for correcting me. I definitely want the correct facts out there.

 

[Synergizer Bunny]

It sounds melodramatic, but I am a bit...nervous about... the fact that we already have an unknown shooter attacking an educational institution in New England, and then this also happens. Completely MOO.

I apologize if this has already been posted. I have read that the professor's home was only 50 miles from Brown University. So, I also am wondering if this murder is related.

From AI: The MIT professor who was fatally shot, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, lived in Brookline, Massachusetts, which is approximately 50 miles from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

JMO.

 

[liminal-limitless]

Just wanted to comment as someone who used to live in the area -- Brookline is a dense, urban but VERY wealthy and safe city. I don't know that I've literally ever heard of a shooting there before (I'm sure there have been some, but very rarely). Brookline and Newton (neighboring town) are centers of the Jewish community in Boston, so I guess it's possible he could have been targeted due to being Jewish but if that was the case, the perp could have picked out any random person on the street. The fact that it happened in the foyer of the apartment building stands out to me. With buildings like that, usually you would have to buzz one of the apartments to get let in, so that suggests to me that he was targeted specifically by someone who knew his address including the apartment number, and that he let them in. (Unless the killer buzzed at random, was let in without talking to the person on the other end, and randomly found the victim in the foyer, but again, why go to the trouble if the goal is a random shooting)

Has there ever been a case where it's theorized that a scientist was killed due to their research? I've seen a lot of similar things in fiction but can't think of any in real life

 

[Twick]

The thing about “killing to suppress research” is that there is little one scientist can discover that other scientists wouldn’t be able to duplicate. Unlike what we see in fiction with “lost formulas”, good researchers document their work meticulously and it would be easy to tell where they stopped.

If the attack was related to his work, I’d look at grad students or colleagues who felt aggrieved (right or wrongly) that he’d not given them credit.

 

[airportwoman]

I actually thought of this story when the news broke about the MIT professor. This turned out to be a random act by two teenagers who didn't know them, and I have a feeling that something similar may be going on here. Time will tell, of course.

I almost said "long ago story" and realized that, yes, 2001 IS a long time ago, especially to our younger readers.

2001 Dartmouth College murders - Wikipedia

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