<p>[Connecticut</a> Huskies CB Jasper Howard dies after stabbing - ESPN](<a href=“Mbappe inspires PSG to 2-1 win over Strasbourg - ESPN”>UConn Huskies CB Jasper Howard dies after stabbing - ESPN)</p>
<p>How tragic. Thoughts/prayers to the family and to the UConn Community.</p>
<p>Another young life lost. …A fatal stabbing in the Student Union, of all places. Huskies head coach was asked to identify the body at the hospital, said he feels like one of his own sons has been taken away.</p>
<p>Alum here with immediate family directly connected to UConn. I heard some bits and pieces throughout the day today. According to what I heard there were about 100 people involved in some kind of altercation and someone threw the fire alarm to force the event outside…no one seems sure what started it. Everyone seems confident that it was not only UConn students involved. For most of the day the Student Union was closed but has reopened now according to the article linked above. Very sad day.</p>
<p>I just read in the student daily many of the details that ebeeee mentions above. Another point – the dance was being chaperoned by 2 UConn police officers who were outside the student union when the stabbings – two people stabbed – occurred outside.</p>
<p>[UConn</a> student killed outside Union - News](<a href=“http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2009/10/19/News/Uconn.Student.Killed.Outside.Union-3806264.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition]UConn”>http://media.www.dailycampus.com/media/storage/paper340/news/2009/10/19/News/Uconn.Student.Killed.Outside.Union-3806264.shtml?reffeature=htmlemailedition)</p>
<p>A huge loss for UConn in many ways. The reports are saying that he played pickup basketball with the men’s and women’s players and that particularly Gino’s girls are taking it hard.</p>
<p>This is sooooo sad. My heart goes out to the UConn community.</p>
<p>A senseless tragedy and terribly ironic since he left this home city of Miami to escape the general level of violence (heard this on the news). Sympathies to his family and to his school family.</p>
<p>Papers here are reporting the student who died was a first generation college student who indeed took the scholarship to play at UConn to escape the violence of the his home in the Miami area. This is so tragic for the student his family and the University.</p>
<p>Appropriate to bump this as today is the on campus service for Jasper Howard. The article below has some great insight from JR Giddens, a Celtics player who was in an altercation a few years ago.
[UConn</a> death resonates - BostonHerald.com](<a href=“http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view/20091021uconn_death_resonates_giddens_feels_tragedy/srvc=home&position=recent]UConn”>http://www.bostonherald.com/sports/basketball/celtics/view/20091021uconn_death_resonates_giddens_feels_tragedy/srvc=home&position=recent)</p>
<p>Did anyone see coach Randy Edsall dedicate his team’s win over Notre Dame to Jasper Howard today? It was heart-wrenching. A good end to a sad season for all those young men.</p>
<p>What an amazing game today. Both teams played well, but to see the UConn players rally and fight through two overtimes, to see them stick together and pull it off, was incredibly heartwarming. Good for the Huskies, and their coach. They played with so much heart.</p>