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Preston Lowrey

Death by Force
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D. Preston Lowrey III, a 44-year-old associate professor of mechanical engineering at San Diego State University (SDSU), tragically lost his life on August 15, 1996, in a horrific incident known as the San Diego State University shooting. On that fateful day, Lowrey, along with two other esteemed professors, Chen Liang and Constantinos Lyrintzis, were fatally shot by Frederick Martin Davidson, a disturbed graduate student. The incident occurred during Davidson's master's thesis defense, which wa ...Read More
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    Victim Details

    D. Preston Lowrey, III

    San-diego

    CA

    1996-08-15

    44

    Preston

    Lowrey

    11/29/2025

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