Liang stood, formally introduced Davidson, stated the purpose of the meeting, and sat back down.
[7] Without time for comment from Liang, and without saying anything himself, Davidson turned to the first aid box on the wall, removed a 9mm handgun, and immediately started firing.
[8] SDSU police officers arrived to find Davidson in the third-floor hallway still holding the handgun.
Davidson had left a murder-suicide note in the hallway for the police to find, detailing the location of evidence and computer files in his house.
[7] Frederick Martin Davidson (born 1960), aged 36 at the time of the shooting, was a mechanical engineering graduate student at SDSU.
[5] San Diego Police Department investigations after the shooting determined that Davidson made advance plans for the shooting by slipping into the room where he was to defend his thesis at 10:00 a.m., and hiding the handgun and five extra magazines of ammunition in a first aid kit.
[7] Davidson's lack of employment was also a motive, as he felt Constantinos Lyrintzis was preventing him from finding work.
[12] Also, the Preston Lowrey III Memorial Scholarship Fund was established at the university shortly after the shooting.