Further details are emerging about the fatal shooting in the United States of Portuguese plasma physicist Nuno Loureiro.
Correio da Manhã tabloid explains that Loureiro, 47, was shot after one of his daughters answered a ring to the family’s doorbell at their home in Brookline, Massachusetts.
The man waiting outside shot three, possibly four, times – right past the horrified daughter, missing her completely, but hitting her father who was standing a few metres behind her.
The girl, aged 14, got a ‘good view’ of the man, and has reportedly described him to police.
This is murder that has shocked communities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Loureiro was passionate about the potential for fusion as a clean power source and about teaching a new generation of scientists, colleagues have told reporters. He thought “that we are really progressing towards finally having electricity from fusion”, Bruno Soares Gonçalves, a plasma physicist and president of the Institute of Plasmas and Nuclear Fusion in Lisbon, where Loureiro worked until he moved to MIT in 2016, has told Nature.com . “People in the community are so shocked and extremely saddened.”
Source: Correio da Manhã/ Nature.
Journalist for the Portugal Resident.
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