Western Maryland’s tiny Frostburg State University was rocked by violence Sunday after one student allegedly shot two others, leaving one dead and another seriously wounded early Sunday morning.
According to an account from the university’s press release, the suspect in the shootings had allegedly assaulted a woman at an off-campus party a few hours earlier, then shot two students who followed him home to confront him.
Brandon Michael Carroll, 20, of Waldorf, was pronounced dead; the second student, Ellis Eugene Hartridge Jr. of Washington, D.C., remained hospitalized Sunday afternoon but is expected to survive, the press release said. The two had been fired on with a 12-gauge shotgun, the release said.
The student suspect, Tyrone Brent Hall, 21, of Glen Burnie, remained jailed without bond in connection with the shootings as of Sunday evening, The Washington Post reported.
Although College Park is more known for its crime than rural Frostburg — a town closer to Pittsburgh than to Frederick, a hundred miles from either — this crime would have been unprecedented even here.
Our sporadic sexual assaults are nothing to boast about, but our only recent double shootings have been between police and alleged shoplifters.
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