The officers rendered emergency care until rescuers arrived and took Frazier to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead about 45 minutes later.
Frazier, Simpson and two other students shared the suite, which has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, a kitchen and a common area, Maryland State Police said. They said others were in the suite at the time of the fight, but no one else was injured.
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Dominique T. Frazier, an 18-year-old Bowie State student, was found stabbed on the second floor of a residential housing building on campus.
The Crime Scene
Starting Thursday night, Twitter lit up with news about the stabbing. Bowie State Public Safety Director Ernest L. Waiters urged students not to speculate about what happened and to contact police if they knew of any previous disputes between the two students.
"There is a lot of misinformation going on right now about this event," he said. ''I am going to ask you not to engage in that type of communication."
On Thursday night, a student, Matthew Crisostomo, said in an e-mail that the campus alert system issued a message to students that police were investigating “a stabbing that occurred inside Christa McAuliffe Hall.”
About 11 p.m., campus officials used the alert system to announce that residents of the McAuliffe dorm who were not in the building should report to the Center for Learning and Technology and that those in the dorm should “remain inside the building at this time.”
“The entire university community is distressed that this type of violence has occurred within our midst,” campus officials said in their web statement.
To investigate the death, state police shut down the residence hall. Students living there traveled home or slept on cots that were lined up in a campus gym. Waiters said state police expected to finish their search of the hall this afternoon and students on most floors could then return to their rooms. Students living on the second floor will have to wait longer, as cleaning crews still needed to work there.
Waiters did not say Simpson's name at the community meeting, but told students "an individual" had been charged with first and second-degree murder. He said the safety of students was not in jeopardy.
"This is a very sad time for us because we have lost one student toviolence, and we've lost another" to the consequences of serious violence, Waiters said.
Bowie State University, established in Prince George’s County in 1865, is the oldest historically black college or university in Maryland. About 4,000 students are enrolled full-time, with about 1,500 part-time students.
On Friday morning, the campus was quiet and parking lots were nearly empty. Yellow police tape blocked the front entrance to the Christa McAuliffe Residential Community building. The school’s Homecoming week began Sept. 11 and will end Sunday.
Signs were posted on the doors of academic buildings notifying students that classes were canceled.
Several students living on campus said they locked themselves in their rooms Thursday night and were afraid to leave, as they did not know if any arrests had been made or if there was any chance they too could be harmed.
“It was a pretty crazy night. I couldn’t sleep until at least 3,” said Terez Badger, 21, a junior biology major from Perryville. “For some reason, we all have this illusion that you are safe on campus.”
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