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Visiting student fatally stabbed at a campus bus stop; attacker convicted of murder
AI-generated · every claim is source-linkedIn the early hours of May 20, 2017, Bowie State University senior Richard Collins III was fatally stabbed at a bus stop near Montgomery Hall on the University of Maryland campus while waiting for an Uber with friends. The attacker, UMD student Sean Urbanski, was a member of a racist Facebook group called 'Alt-Reich: Nation.' Urbanski was convicted of first-degree murder in December 2019 and sentenced to life with the possibility of parole.
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Campus Alert Archive. "University of Maryland, College Park: Visiting student fatally stabbed at a campus bus stop; attacker convicted of murder." Incident of May 20, 2017. Added May 2026; last updated August 2026. https://campusalertarchive.com/case/university-of-maryland-hate-crime-stabbing-2017-05-20/
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