{"id":21028,"date":"2021-01-15T03:04:01","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T03:04:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/01\/15\/man-gets-life-prison-sentence-for-killing-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:56:55","slug":"man-gets-life-prison-sentence-for-killing-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2021\/01\/15\/man-gets-life-prison-sentence-for-killing-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets life prison sentence for killing newly commissioned 2nd lieutenant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">COLLEGE PARK, Md. \u2014 A white man who stabbed a Black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland\u2019s flagship College Park campus was sentenced Thursday to life in prison for what prosecutors claimed was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2019\/06\/06\/judge-allows-racist-fb-page-as-evidence-in-fatal-stabbing-of-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant\/\" target=_blank>a racially motivated hate crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sean Urbanski, 25, apologized to the parents of 23-year-old Richard Collins III for the \u201chorrible pain\u201d he caused them and said he wishes he could \u201cgo back and change what happened\u201d on the night in May 2017 when he killed the newly commissioned Army lieutenant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere hasn\u2019t been a day that\u2019s gone by where I haven\u2019t thought about what I\u2019ve done to you, and if I could switch places with your son I would in a heartbeat,\u201d Urbanski told Dawn and Richard Collins Jr. during a hearing conducted by video teleconference.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2019\/12\/19\/maryland-man-guilty-in-fatal-stabbing-of-newly-commissioned-2nd-lieutenant\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP19156705351309.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Maryland man guilty in fatal stabbing of newly commissioned 2nd lieutenant<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">A white man was found guilty of murder on Wednesday for stabbing a black college student to death at a bus stop on the University of Maryland\u2019s campus, a crime that prosecutors had claimed was racially motivated.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors had sought the maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole, but Prince George\u2019s County State\u2019s Attorney Aisha Braveboy and defense attorney William Brennan said after the hearing that Urbanski will be eligible for parole under the judge\u2019s sentence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Circuit Court Judge Lawrence Hill Jr. dismissed a hate crime charge against Urbanski before a jury convicted him of first-degree murder in December 2019. But the judge said Thursday that he believes race and alcohol both were factors in the killing. Hill said he doesn\u2019t believe it was a coincidence that Urbanski stabbed the only Black person at the bus stop that night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cRace is always amongst us in the things we do and things we say,\u201d the judge said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collins\u2019 parents said they wake up every night around the same time that their son was killed. They can\u2019t bring themselves to clean out his room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the passage of time, we have come to the realization that racist hate was the murderer\u2019s only motivation for killing our son,\u201d Richard Collins Jr. said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Urbanski\u2019s mother told Collins\u2019 parents that the \u201chorror and devastation\u201d of knowing that her son killed their son is with her every day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cYour son Richard should be here, and it\u2019s my son Sean\u2019s fault that he\u2019s not,\u201d Elizabeth Urbanski said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before the jury\u2019s verdict, Hill ruled that prosecutors didn\u2019t meet their legal burden of showing that racial hatred motivated Urbanski to stab Collins, who didn\u2019t know his assailant. But he noted Thursday that he made that ruling before the hate crime law was changed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, Maryland enacted legislation bearing Collins\u2019 name to strengthen the state\u2019s hate crime law so prosecutors don\u2019t have to prove hate is the only motivating factor in committing a crime. The change expanded the law to apply to crimes motivated \u201ceither in whole or in substantial part\u201d by race, color, religious belief, sexual orientation, gender, disability or national origin. Collins\u2019 parents had lobbied for a change in the law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The judge allowed prosecutors to present evidence that Urbanski saved at least six photographs of racist memes on his cellphone and liked a Facebook group called \u201cAlt-Reich: Nation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors said alcohol and racist propaganda poisoned Urbanski\u2019s mind and emboldened him to act on his hatred of Black people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEvery murder victimizes more than just the deceased,\u201d a county prosecutor, Jonathon Church, told the judge. \u201cA murder borne out of hate has a ripple effect on the human race.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Defense attorneys said there was no evidence of a racial motive for the killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An expert witness for the defense concluded Urbanski\u2019s blood alcohol level was three times the legal limit at the time of the killing. Defense attorneys didn\u2019t dispute Urbanski killed Collins and conceded he committed a crime, but they argued he was too drunk to have the intent or premeditation necessary to support a first-degree murder conviction. They urged jurors to convict Urbanski of second-degree murder, which carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in prison.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Collins was commissioned as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army shortly before his death. He was days from graduating from Bowie State University, a historically Black college, and was celebrating with a friend at bars on the night of his killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Urbanski had been enrolled at the University of Maryland\u2019s College Park campus. He, too, was drinking with friends at bars before the killing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">About 3:30 a.m. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2017\/05\/22\/newly-commissioned-lieutenant-stabbed-to-death-in-possible-hate-crime\/\" target=_blank>on May 20, 2017<\/a>, Urbanski approached Collins while he waited at a bus stop for an Uber driver with a white man who was his friend and an Asian woman whom they had just met. Urbanski brandished a folding knife as he approached the friends from a wooded area, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStep left, step left if you know what\u2019s best for you,\u201d Urbanski told them, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNo,\u201d Collins said before Urbanski stabbed him once in his chest with a folding knife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Urbanski then pocketed the knife and sat down on a bench until police arrived and arrested him at the bus stop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cMy son committed the unpardonable sin of saying, \u2018No,\u2019 to a white man,\u201d a tearful Dawn Collins told the judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said her son, her husband and her father-in-law all proudly served their country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNot white America. Not Black America. 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