As campus grieves, family’s lawyer calls Lucas Mattson’s death ‘completely preventable’

Correction 2/6: This article has been updated to reflect that on Jan. 25, Delta Chi was placed on interim suspension, which includes all chapter activities, by its chapter headquarters.

19-year-old Engineering sophomore Lucas Mattson was found dead Jan. 24 on the 1900 block of Cambridge Road. Mattson was last seen at a fraternity party at 1 a.m. on Jan. 23 and was reported missing at 4:30 p.m. later that day. According to police dispatch records, he was found by a homeowner in the backyard of their home at 12:05 p.m. the next day.

While Mattson’s cause of death has not been revealed, temperatures dipped well below zero degrees the night he went missing, and Mattson was not wearing a coat when he was last seen. The University campus community has been grieving and looking for answers ever since…

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