{
  "id": "2023-05-07-frostburg-state-university-off-campus-party-shooting",
  "slug": "frostburg-state-university-off-campus-party-shooting-2023-05-07",
  "institution": {
    "name": "Frostburg State University",
    "shortName": "FSU",
    "state": "MD",
    "type": "public-masters",
    "alertSystemName": "BURG Alert",
    "enrollment": 4900
  },
  "incident": {
    "date": "2023-05-07",
    "type": "shooting",
    "cleryCategory": "emergency-notification",
    "headline": "Gunfire at an off-campus party killed one person and wounded three students",
    "headlinePublic": "Gunfire at an off-campus party killed one person and wounded three students",
    "summary": "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](https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/man-killed-3-students-wounded-in-shooting-at-off-campus-party-in-frostburg/). 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](https://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/four-arrests-made-in-fatal-off-campus-party-shooting-at-frostburg/article_e6c6de30-f9cd-11ed-9111-1f0fb7283e24.html) in the weeks that followed.",
    "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.",
    "resolution": "confirmed-threat",
    "casualties": {
      "killed": 1,
      "injured": 3
    }
  },
  "alerts": [
    {
      "sequence": 1,
      "type": "initial",
      "timestampApprox": "Early morning of May 7, 2023, shortly after the 12:10 a.m. EDT shooting",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": false,
      "sourceDescription": "Reconstructed from Frostburg State BURG Alert summary and local coverage",
      "annotations": []
    },
    {
      "sequence": 2,
      "type": "update",
      "timestampApprox": "Morning of May 7, 2023, after scene was secured",
      "channel": "sms",
      "verbatimText": "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.",
      "isVerbatimConfirmed": true,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.frostburg.edu/information-technology/Services/burg-alert-updates.php",
      "sourceDescription": "FSU BURG Alert Message Updates (official archive)",
      "annotations": [
        "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."
      ],
      "characterCount": 202
    }
  ],
  "context": "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](https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/man-killed-3-students-wounded-in-shooting-at-off-campus-party-in-frostburg/) that a 20-year-old man was killed and three FSU students were wounded, while the [Baltimore Sun](https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-frostburg-shooting-sunday-20230511-wvfic2a5vbfj3lll7qbcixpxo4-story.html) and the [Cumberland Times-News](https://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/four-arrests-made-in-fatal-off-campus-party-shooting-at-frostburg/article_e6c6de30-f9cd-11ed-9111-1f0fb7283e24.html) 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](https://www.frostburg.edu/information-technology/Services/burg-alert-updates.php) 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.",
  "keyFindings": [
    "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"
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "title": "Man killed, 3 students wounded in shooting at off-campus party in Frostburg - CBS Baltimore",
      "url": "https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/man-killed-3-students-wounded-in-shooting-at-off-campus-party-in-frostburg/",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Man killed, 3 students wounded in shooting at off-campus party in Frostburg on Sunday - Baltimore Sun",
      "url": "https://www.baltimoresun.com/maryland/bs-md-frostburg-shooting-sunday-20230511-wvfic2a5vbfj3lll7qbcixpxo4-story.html",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "Four arrests made in fatal off-campus party shooting at Frostburg - Cumberland Times-News",
      "url": "https://www.times-news.com/news/local_news/four-arrests-made-in-fatal-off-campus-party-shooting-at-frostburg/article_e6c6de30-f9cd-11ed-9111-1f0fb7283e24.html",
      "type": "local-media"
    },
    {
      "title": "BURG Alert Message Updates - Frostburg State University",
      "url": "https://www.frostburg.edu/information-technology/Services/burg-alert-updates.php",
      "type": "official-archive"
    }
  ],
  "confidence": "medium",
  "tags": [
    "shooting",
    "off-campus",
    "maryland",
    "emergency-notification",
    "burg-alert",
    "party",
    "fatality"
  ],
  "dateAdded": "2026-05-29",
  "lastUpdated": "2026-07-16",
  "addedBy": "ingestion"
}