As I walked around the pretty campus of Frostburg State University on Monday, covering yet another alleged student-on-student killing, some things stood out. Police in this small Western Maryland town, just as in Baltimore, leave their crime scene tape behind.

And a sorority up the street from the killing put up a Baltimore-like memorial -- minus the votive candles -- on a pole at Maple and College. There was a teddy bear, a note and plastic flowers honoring the victim, Kortneigh McCoy. The girls who put it there didn't even know the victim. "We just thought it would be nice because it happened on our street," one told me.

But the aftermath was this -- a promising gospel choir vocalist and physics major who graduated from Baltimore Polytechnic is dead, and a business senior from Waldorf is behind bars, facing first-degree murder charges. Read full story here.

Campus officials talked about the problems with alcohol -- the fight that led to the stabbing came after a crowded house party and involved one of the girl's renting the home, who police said was collecting admission at the door. The fight started when police that girl argued with one of the victim's friends -- she thought he would not get out of the way.

Such petty fights -- just two months ago, a female student at Bowie State University was charged with fatally stabbing another student in an argument over music and an iPod. And the killing at Frostburg was the second in two years involving students.

The bail hearing for the suspect, 23-year-old Shanee Liggins, was short,with her held without bail, and her parents and a lawyer disappeared into a private conference room. The mother and father walked out hand-in-hand but had little to say to reporters.

At a news conference back on campus, the vice president of student services, Thomas Bowling, recalled visiting the hospital emergency room where 20 of McCoy's friends gathered, and learned of her death. 

He recalled McCoy's mother -- "In the midst of her own unspeakable grief, she was focused on providing comfort to the friends of her daughter." She went around the room and hugged them all.