Brown, MIT shootings may have stemmed from suspect’s failures, fixation on scientist’s success: report

New details are emerging about the suspected gunman in the killings of an MIT scientist and two Brown University students, with a top Portuguese nuclear fusion official telling the Daily Mail the suspect may have fixated on the victim as a symbol of success he never achieved.

Authorities say Nuno Loureiro, 47, a world-renowned fusion-energy researcher and director of MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center, was shot on Dec. 15 and died hours later. Police believe the gunman was Claudio Neves-Valente...