How Maryland universities are remembering a student slain 7 years ago [Video]

At the oldest HBCU in Maryland, some students attended classes in a brand new facility this week: the Martin Luther King Jr. Center.

During a ribbon cutting for the Bowie State University facility on Tuesday, attention wasn’t just on the civil rights advocate’s legacy.

The building also honors Army 1st Lt. Richard Collins III, who died days before he was set to graduate from BSU in 2017. While waiting at a bus stop after visiting friends at the College Park campus, he was fatally stabbed by a white University of Maryland student.