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Shots Fired at an East College Avenue Party: One Killed, Three Students Wounded

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Confirmed 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
Institution
Frostburg State University
Public Masters · MD
~4,900 studentsBURG Alert
Confirmed Timeline

Alert Sequence

2 messages in sequence · 1 verified verbatim

Some alert texts below are approximate reconstructions from news coverage, not confirmed verbatim transcripts. Reconstructed texts are shown in italic with a dashed border. Verified verbatim texts have a solid border and are marked accordingly.

INITIAL ALERTSMS
Approximate reconstruction155 chars
BURG Alert: Police are responding to reports of shots fired near an off-campus party in the area of East College Avenue. Avoid the area. Updates to follow.

This text has been reconstructed from news coverage and may not reflect the exact original wording.

Reconstructed wording for the initial alert; the exact first-message text is not reproduced in the official BURG Alert archive snapshot, so this alert is honestly marked unconfirmed (the later 6:15 a.m. update is confirmed verbatim).
The shooting was on East College Avenue, an off-campus residential street that abuts the FSU campus, illustrating the Clery challenge of an emergency that begins just outside university property but threatens students walking home.
UPDATESMS
Verified verbatimFSU BURG Alert Message Updates (official archive)202 chars
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. 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

  1. News
    Man killed, 3 students wounded in shooting at off-campus party in Frostburg - CBS Baltimore
    cbsnews.com
  2. News
    Man killed, 3 students wounded in shooting at off-campus party in Frostburg on Sunday - Baltimore Sun
    baltimoresun.com
  3. News
    Four arrests made in fatal off-campus party shooting at Frostburg - Cumberland Times-News
    times-news.com
  4. Official
    BURG Alert Message Updates - Frostburg State University
    frostburg.edu
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