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Posthumous Degree Awarded to Trayvon Martin

Florida Memorial University will 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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