UConn CB Jasper Howard Killed In Off-Campus Stabbing
Yahoo! Sports Reports:
STORRS, Conn. (AP)—A University of Connecticut football player died Sunday following a stabbing after an on-campus dance, hours after the team’s victory over Louisville.
Twenty-year-old Jasper Howard of Miami, a junior and starting cornerback, and a second person were stabbed during a fight early Sunday after someone pulled a fire alarm during a dance at the UConn Student Union, police said. The dance was not related to the game, police said.
Sunday afternoon, police were still looking for the perpetrator.
“We’re actively following investigative leads,” said Major Ronald Blicher of the UConn Police, when asked if authorities have a suspect.
Connecticut's Jasper Howard (6) leaps in the air while covering Lousiville Josh Chichester (11) during the last seconds of a NCAA college football football game in East Hartford, Conn. Howard died Sunday following an on-campus stabbing, hours after the team's victory over Louisville.
UConn students were being advised to be cautious, but Blicher said police do not believe the incident was a random act of violence.
University President Michael Hogan told The Associated Press the stabbing is a tragedy for the entire university community.
“I was in the locker room after the game yesterday. It was such a joyous moment,” Hogan said. “To go from that game and such a victory to the developments at 12:30 last night is such a tragedy.”
Police cordoned off the crime scene near the Storrs university’s well-known Gampel Pavilion basketball arena.
Blicher said two groups were involved in the fight.
UConn police said one of their officers was approached on Hillside Road around 12:33 a.m. and told that a stabbing had occurred. Police found Howard and another person with stab wounds, university police said in a statement. The name of the second person was not immediately released.
Both were taken by ambulance to Windham Community Memorial Hospital. Howard was later airlifted by Lifestar helicopter to St. Francis Hospital in Hartford, where he died from his injuries, police said. The second person was treated and released from Windham hospital.
Howard made a key move in Saturday’s game, forcing a fumble just as Louisville was about to score. The Huskies were up 21-13 at the time. They later won 38-25. Following the game, Howard, who led the Big East in punt returns last season, talked to the AP about the play.
“I felt my hand go on the ball and I felt that I had a chance to get it out. I just stripped it out. It was a big play. We needed it,” he said.
Hogan, the university president, said the school was arranging for Howard’s mother to come to Connecticut.
“It’s such a tragedy. All I can say is how sorry we all are and how sad we all are that something like this happened in the middle of our campus,” Hogan said.
UConn police were working with a major crime squad of the state police on the case. Hogan said about 40 officers were involved.
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Comment by dr0 on October 18, 2009 at 10:00pm - dam sad he was talented kat too da dum shyt nuva ends r.i.p. i hope his fam stays strong
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Comment by 305 (ANTHONY)DadeCounty on October 18, 2009 at 9:24pm -
I knew him personally,he went to Miami Edison Sr High,down here in Miami.
I got the txt he was dead,early this morning.
Feel kind of bad for his fam n his lil sis,who play bball down here.
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Comment by NUGE on October 18, 2009 at 9:16pm - R.I.P. twenty years old wayyy to young
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Comment by Hymn Amen on October 18, 2009 at 8:54pm - Dam.... The good die young......
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Comment by Jerzz973 on October 18, 2009 at 8:46pm - damnz cant even chill at a party on campus rip
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Comment by 81reasonz on October 18, 2009 at 8:45pm - RIP bro
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Comment by ZAP! on October 18, 2009 at 8:26pm - Senseless' RIP
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Comment by Bo$$ Black on October 18, 2009 at 7:55pm - Thats shit is crazy..You can't even have a good time on campus...Where was the campus police, cuz from what I heard, cats had guns out arguing back and forth for at least 15mins..Jasper didn't even have nothing bto do with it, he tried to break out when all hell broke loose and got stabbed
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Comment by ☆:.G-Unit Misses.:☆ on October 18, 2009 at 7:28pm - awwwwl, R.I.P. so sad..
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Comment by Concisekwill on October 18, 2009 at 7:14pm - Life always swallows up good people too early and leaves all the shitheads around to reach old age. Fucked up.
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