Dec. 16 (UPI) -- Law enforcement officials announced Tuesday they had opened a homicide investigation after Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro was found dead in his home from apparent gunshot wounds the previous day.
Loureiro was a theoretical physicist and fusion scientist who served as director of the MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center at MIT, according to an article published by the news service of the Cambridge, Mass-based research university.
The Norfolk District Attorney's Office said in a statement that police found Loureiro, 47, dead in his home in Brookline after receiving a report of a shooting. Loureiro was taken to a hospital and was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning.
The prosecutor's office stated in the post that the case is "an active and ongoing homicide investigation" and offered no further information.
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