Florida Memorial university to award Trayvon Martin a
posthumous Bachelor of Science Degree in aviation five years after the
black teenager was fatally shot by a neighborhood watch volunteer in a
central Florida neighborhood.
An announcement on Florida Memorial University’s official Facebook page
says Martin’s parents, Sabrina Fulton and Tracy Martin, will accept the
degree during a May 13 commencement ceremony.
Fulton graduated from
the Miami Gardens university and, along with Tracy Martin, co-founded
the Trayvon Martin Foundation.
The university’s statement says it will honor the steps Martin, who was
17 when he died in 2012, took toward becoming a pilot.
George Zimmerman said he shot Martin in self-defense as the teen returned
to his father’s home after a trip to a convenience store. A jury acquitted
Zimmerman of second-degree murder in 2013.
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