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UConn Football Player Slain on Campus

Cornerback Jasper Howard, 20, was stabbed to death

By M. Morris,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 18, 2009 2:11 PM CDT

(Newser) – A University of Connecticut football player has died after being stabbed on campus early this morning. Jasper Howard, a junior cornerback from Miami and the first member of his family to attend college, was 20. Two groups of people scuffled as a dance at the student union was letting out, and at least one other person was stabbed but survived, police said. The perpetrator has not been captured, police told the Hartford Courant.

Police vehicles are parked at the crime scene in Storrs, Conn., where University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard was stabbed and killed this morning.
Police vehicles are parked at the crime scene in Storrs, Conn., where University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard was stabbed and killed this morning.   (AP Photo/Jessica Hill)
UConn cornerback Jasper Howard and safety Robert Vaughn watch as the final seconds tick off the clock in their 24-10 loss to Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC, Dec. 29, 2007.
UConn cornerback Jasper Howard and safety Robert Vaughn watch as the final seconds tick off the clock in their 24-10 loss to Wake Forest in the Meineke Car Care Bowl in Charlotte, NC, Dec. 29, 2007.   (AP Photo/Nell Redmond, file)
Jasper Howard, the football player who was stabbed to death on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs early this morning.
Jasper Howard, the football player who was stabbed to death on the University of Connecticut campus in Storrs early this morning.   (University of Connecticut)
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COMMENTS
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RockyPneumonia
Oct 19, 2009 12:22 PM CDT
Only because people are shallow enough to think that being an athlete makes one important.
orchide87
Oct 19, 2009 6:31 AM CDT
may he rest in peace, my thoughts go out to his family and friends.
alkaseltzersammich
Oct 19, 2009 5:09 AM CDT
What is the point in commenting on the worthiness of an article about a kid dying? If you don't care for the article, then why comment in the first place? Obviously enough people cared for this man to where they felt the need to write an article about what happened to him. Your negativity is pointless.

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