MIT-Professor-Killed

BROOKLINE, Mass. (AP) — A professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was fatally…

Police have intensified their search for a suspect in the killing of Massachusetts Institute of Technology physics professor Nuno F.G. Loureiro. He was shot at his home outside Boston on Monday night and died at a hospital on Tuesday. The Norfolk District Attorney’s Office said the investigation is ongoing with no suspects in custody. Loureiro, a physicist and fusion scientist, joined MIT in 2016 and led the Plasma Science and Fusion Center. People gathered Tuesday night outside his home to honor him, some holding candles. The FBI said it does not know of any connection to the professor's shooting and a recent deadly shooting at Brown University.

Officials say man who is suspected of killing two and wounding several others at Brown University has been found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility. Providence Police Chief Col. Oscar Perez says Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead Thursday from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Perez says they believe the suspect acted alone. U.S. attorney for Massachusetts Leah B. Foley says investigators believe Neves Valente is responsible for both the shooting at Brown and the killing of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor on Monday. She says Neves Valente and Loureiro attended the same academic program in Portugal between 1995 and 2000.