MIT Professor Is Fatally Shot in His Home

45 pointsposted 11 hours ago
by donohoe
(nytimes.com)

19 Comments

stanleysTool

9 hours ago

Let's hope not another troubled and struggling math graduate:

Murder of Karel de Leeuw - Wikipedia

Murder of Karel de Leeuw Theodore Landon "Ted" Streleski (born 1936), an American former graduate student in mathematics at Stanford University, murdered his former faculty advisor, Professor Karel de Leeuw, with a ball-peen hammer on August 18, 1978.

jablongo

11 hours ago

Not sure what we should we make of this. Besides the tragedy of losing a human being and a scientist, is this significant in another way?

k8si

11 hours ago

I'm not sure people outside of Greater Boston would care, but those of us who do live there probably find it exceedingly strange that this occurred in Brookline of all places.

jeffwask

10 hours ago

Nothing yet, but the timing is oddly coincidental to the shooting that occurred a Brown University a few days ago. Probably nothing there but who knows.

willis936

10 hours ago

We have no info but he was the department head of the MIT PSFC. It's easy to imagine a deranged individual picking a high profile target by browsing MIT's website. Or it was a domestic dispute or road rage or any number of things that would drive someone to shoot someone in their home.

We have no information and can only speculate.

lawlessone

11 hours ago

Looking at a map and and it seems relatively close to Brown(i'm not American , maybe these are very far apart when you are actually there), and that shooter hasn't been caught.

kai_herron

11 hours ago

Providence is about an hour drive away from where I'm at in Greater Boston, less so if your in the city.

rrawasi

7 hours ago

Does he have any ties with Israel? It could be revenge from Iran on its nuclear scientists.

0_____0

6 hours ago

what is the point of idle speculation like this?

noduerme

2 hours ago

The point of this user's sole comment on HN is to imply that Israel is nefarious and that anyome working with Israel may be targeted for assassination (regardless that there's no indication this person was).

I don't think this post should be flagged or removed. There should be a separate classification for nation-state trollbots promoting antisemitic conspiracy theories.

rrawasi

35 minutes ago

Killing a non-military scientist has no moral justification. I didn't have any ill intentions; I wanted to find the reason. However, updating news update answered my questions. Don't try to get your interpretation from my mouth.

mupuff1234

2 hours ago

A few days ago one of the top HN posts was a antisemitic conspiracy cesspool so I'm afraid we're long past that point.

emot

5 hours ago

no. he was Portuguese and simply a brilliant scientist.

Mr_Eri_Atlov

8 hours ago

If any entity had a goal to hamstring research progress in America and get away with it, due to it being unnoticeable in the sea of regular shootings and political upheavals, there would be no better time to do so.

arnz-arnz

4 hours ago

it's the best time for all manner of crimes in fact. It's so sad what a small cabal of lunatics can do.