The man who fatally stabbed a 23-year-old Black man in 2017 was sentenced to life in prison Thursday.
Sean Urbanski, 25, apologized in court for killing 23-year-old Richard Collins III at a bus stop in 2017. He told the victim’s parents minutes before learning his sentence, that he would go back and switch places with Collins if he could.
On the night of the May 2017 stabbing, Collins was just three days away from graduating from Bowie State University and was visiting the University of Maryland College Park campus to celebrate. The newly commissioned second lieutenant in the Army was at a bus stop on the university’s campus with two friends, an Asian woman and a white man, at around 3 a.m. when an approaching Urbanski told him “Step left, step left if you know what’s best for you.”
A white man who stabbed a Black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for what prosecutors claimed was a racially motivated hate crime.
Man gets life prison sentence for killing newly commissioned 2nd lieutenant This undated photo provided by the U.S. Army shows Richard Collins III. (U.S. Army via AP) COLLEGE PARK, Md. A white man who stabbed a Black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland’s flagship College Park campus was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for what prosecutors claimed was a racially motivated hate crime. Sean Urbanski, 25, apologized to the parents of 23-year-old Richard Collins III for the “horrible pain” he caused them and said he wishes he could “go back and change what happened” on the night in May 2017 when he killed the newly commissioned Army lieutenant.