Sophomore Alexis Simpson has been charged with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of her roommate Dominique Frazier at Bowie State University on Thursday night, according to police.
18-year-old Frazier was fatally stabbed at around 8 p.m. Thursday night while on campus. Simpson, who shared a suite with Frazier and two other students, has since been charged and held at the Prince George’s Detention Center without bond. Simpson turned herself in to Prince George’s County Police after midnight following the incident.
“I didn’t mean to do it,” Simpson said. “You all don’t know what I’ve been thru (sic). You all jumped me.”
Michael Worthy, the attorney for Alexis Simpson says the stabbing was a “tragic accident.”
However, prosecutors disagree, saying the suspect “got mad and reacted,” according to one Prince George’s County prosecutor. Investigators believe that Frazier and Simpson were arguing in their dormitory-style apartment suite over music playing on an iPod when it escalated into a physical fight. Frazier was stabbed in the neck.
Donovan Settles, who was visiting friends at the school, said he saw Frazier covered in blood. “I heard a bunch of girls screaming, I walked out into the hallway, went to the left, and I saw this girl, she was sitting on the floor, she was (covered) in blood,” he said.
University police officers later found Frazier lying in the hallway, unconscious and bleeding. She was taken to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead an hour later.
Frazier’s mother said her daughter had complained about having issues with her roommate since they moved in together on in late August.
“I miss my baby,” Denise Frazier said. “She was everything to me. Everything. She’s all that I had.”
All Friday classes at Bowie State University have been canceled and a memorial for Frazier will be held at noon. A preliminary hearing is set for Oct. 14.