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FSU
Gunfire at an off-campus party killed one person and wounded three students
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedConfirmed Threat
Just after midnight on May 7, 2023, gunfire erupted at an off-campus party on East College Avenue near Frostburg State University, killing a 20-year-old man and wounding three FSU students. Frostburg State sent a BURG Alert telling the campus community that officers were responding to shots fired and that one person was deceased and others injured. Four suspects were later arrested in the weeks that followed.
- Alerts
- 2
- Response
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- Killed
- 1
- Injured
- 3
~4,900 studentsBURG Alert
Documented Timeline
Alert Sequence
2 messages in sequence · 1 verified verbatim
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Officers responded to calls for shots fired in the area of an off-campus party. One person is deceased (non-FSU student) and two with injuries (FSU students). The incident is under investigation by C3I.
Verbatim from Frostburg State's official BURG Alert Message Updates archive, posted 6:15 a.m. EDT on May 7, 2023; it distinguishes the deceased non-FSU victim from the injured FSU students.
The injured count of two reflects what FSU communicated in this update; later reporting confirmed three FSU students were wounded, an undercount typical of fast first-day messaging.
'C3I' is the Allegany County Combined Criminal Investigation Unit, the multi-agency investigative team referenced in the official message.
Context
Background
The fatal shooting happened at about 12:10 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 7, 2023, during a party at an off-campus property on East College Avenue near Frostburg State University in western Maryland. CBS Baltimore reported that a 20-year-old man was killed and three FSU students were wounded, while the Baltimore Sun and the Cumberland Times-News documented a multi-week investigation that produced four arrests. The man who died, Alexander Ramon Redondo of Westernport, was not an FSU student; he died at UPMC Western Maryland. Frostburg State pushed a BURG Alert during the response. The university's own BURG Alert message-updates page is the canonical archive for the verbatim text; the 6:15 a.m. EDT update is reproduced verbatim above, while the earlier initial alert remains reconstructed.
Analysis
Key Findings
Frostburg State, a small public master's university in western Maryland, used its BURG Alert system for an off-campus party shooting that killed one person and wounded three students
The fatal victim was a non-FSU community member, while the wounded were FSU students, a distinction the university surfaced directly in its alert messaging
Four suspects were arrested over roughly two weeks, with the first taken into custody on the FSU campus itself
The verbatim alert text is unavailable because FSU's BURG Alert archive 403-blocks outside access, so this case is honestly logged at medium confidence
Outcome
One person, 20-year-old Alexander Ramon Redondo of Westernport (not an FSU student), died of his injuries at UPMC Western Maryland. Three FSU students were wounded and a fifth person reported a grazing wound. Four men were arrested over the following weeks.
Provenance
Sources
- News
- News
- News
- Official
Cite this case
Campus Alert Archive. "Frostburg State University: Gunfire at an off-campus party killed one person and wounded three students." Incident of May 7, 2023. Added May 2026; last updated July 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/frostburg-state-university-off-campus-party-shooting-2023-05-07/
Alert text quoted on this page remains the work of the issuing institution; the archive is a secondary source.
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shootingoff-campusmarylandemergency-notificationburg-alertpartyfatality
Added May 2026Updated July 2026Via ingestion