Campus Police

A University of Maryland, Eastern Shore student was stabbed to death this weekend during a fight as the campus celebrated homecoming - plunging another state school into grief after an apparent murder-suicide left two students dead in College Park less than a week ago. Maryland State Police identified the UMES student as Edmond A. St. Clair, a 21-year-old junior biology major from Severn who graduated from Laurel High School in 2010. Friends, teachers and family members said he excelled in college, dreamed of becoming a doctor or surgeon and had a passion for producing reggae-style music.

A police recruit wounded in a training exercise can respond through hand signals but remains hospitalized with an unclear path to recovery, said a Baltimore attorney representing the officer. State police identified the injured officer candidate on Wednesday as Raymond Gray, 43, of Baltimore. Gray, who was training to be a University of Maryland campus police officer, was accidentally shot in the head with a live round Feb. 12 during what authorities have described as an unauthorized training exercise using simulated ammunition.

During what was supposed to be a festive homecoming week, the campus of Bowie State University was instead quiet and somber Friday after a student was arrested and charged with killing one of her roommates. According to police, Alexis D. Simpson, 19, fatally stabbed 18-year-old Dominique T. Frazier on Thursday night in the dorm where they both lived. Charging documents show that the confrontation was sparked by a seemingly innocuous act: Simpson turned off Frazier's iPod as they prepared to go out, records show.

Morgan State University officials said Saturday they have promoted campus police Chief Adrian J. Wiggins to the new post of chief public safety officer, in which he will explore changes to campus safety and emergency management systems. The move comes two months after a student was accused of dismembering a family friend and eating his heart and some of his brain. University President David Wilson said the new post will involve issues such as security of university laboratories, pedestrian traffic on the campus and relations with nearby neighborhoods.

Maryland reserve sophomore outside linebacker Tim Fosque was arrested Wednesday night by campus police for allegedly stealing a computer, campus police said last night.Fosque, from Neptune, N.J., allegedly took the computer Sept. 22 from the Lee Building on campus with the help of a friend.He allegedly paid the friend $200 to help remove the computer from a desk. Fosque was charged with theft over $300 and breaking and entering.The computer in question was discovered at his home in Laurel during the execution of a search-and-seizure warrant, said Sgt. Paul Tess of the campus police.

Preliminary autopsy results have yet to pinpoint the cause of LTC death of a University of Maryland student who died on the College Park campus Saturday, but no signs of a communicable disease were found, the state medical examiner's office said yesterday.Donald Gene Castleberry, 21, a junior from Millersville in Anne Arundel County, was found dead in bed at 4 p.m. by his roommate in the Delta Tau Delta house on Fraternity Row, campus police said.Fire officials estimated that Castleberry had been dead about 12 hours.

University of Maryland officials will install locks on bathroom doors in Centreville Hall after a man twice entered women's showers in the College Park dormitory and groped women within the past two weeks.The combination key-pad locks will be added at the request of building residents who attended meetings conducted by the campus resident life department Wednesday night."That was important to us because that's their home and that's their building," said Patricia Mielke, director of resident life.

As a suspected gunman walked across Towson University, officials sent an emergency notification through text alert, email and Twitter to some 25,000 students and faculty, warning them of the man's whereabouts and advising them to "stay in a safe location. " The situation ended peacefully. The "gunman" was a student carrying a theater prop — a university spokeswoman called the incident "much ado about nothing. " But until the circumstances were cleared up, the alert had the campus community on edge.

A bail hearing is scheduled today in Upper Marlboro for an 18-year-old Washington man charged with raping a University of Maryland student in her College Park dormitory room, authorities said.The suspect, identified by campus police as David Earl Williams, was arrested before dawn Friday after the student told campus police she had been raped in her room in La Plata Hall.A 16-year-old boy accompanying the suspect also was taken into custody but was later released without being charged. Mr. Williams, who is not a university student, was being held without bond yesterday at the Prince George's County Detention Center, police said.

More than 70 high school students attending a conference at the University of Maryland, College Park were treated at local hospitals last night for apparent food poisoning, authorities said. The students were attending the National Student Leadership Conference, a university spokeswoman said. Campus police said all had been staying at the school's LaPlata dormitory and some had eaten at a nearby campus dining hall. None of the students had been admitted to the hospital and all were expected to be released, according to spokeswomen from Doctors Community Hospital of Prince George's County in Lanham and Washington Adventist Hospital in Takoma Park.