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MIT Prof Shooting: Link to Brown Campus Tragedy?
19 Dec, 2025
Summary
- Police investigate a potential link between two shootings in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
- An MIT professor was fatally shot at his home, days after a Brown University campus shooting.
- Two students were killed and nine injured in the Brown University shooting.
Law enforcement is reportedly examining a possible connection between the fatal shooting of a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor and a recent campus shooting at Brown University. The incident at Brown University, which occurred recently, claimed the lives of two students and injured nine others. Three days later, Nuno F.G. Loureiro, a 47-year-old professor at MIT, was fatally shot multiple times at his residence in Brookline, Massachusetts. Brookline police are investigating his death as a homicide.
