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University of Connecticut police are asking the public to share any photos or videos taking during a Saturday night dance that ended in a melee that claimed the life of UConn football player Jasper Howard.
Pictures: UConn Mourns Death Of Jasper Howard
Howard, 20, a junior cornerback for the Huskies, was stabbed during an altercation near the Student Union after a party in the building. The stabbing occurred just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Hillside Road, near the center of campus. He was stabbed once in the abdomen.
More than 300 people attended the party, sponsored by the West Indian Student Awareness Organization.
"We are requesting that all images, photos, and video taken both inside and outside of the Student Union on the night of the stabbing incident be submitted to investigators for review," wrote Maj. Ronald Blicher of the UConn Police Department in an email to students Monday night.
"This can include images that you took, or that someone else has given to you. Remember that no image is insignificant," he wrote.
Investigators can be contacted by calling the UConn Police at 860-486-4800 or the UConn Police Tip Line at 860-486-4444, or by emailing the task force at CrimeAlerts@uconn.edu.
Meanwhile, police have questioned — but not arrested — a Bloomfield man about his possible role in the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut football player over the weekend, a Hartford attorney said.
Share your condolences for Jasper Howard
Deron Freeman said that he represents a man who was questioned Sunday in connection with the killing. He declined to identify his client, but did say that he is one of four men UConn police view as "main suspects."
UConn police arrived at the man's home Sunday and asked him to follow them back to Storrs for questioning, Freeman said Monday night. "He voluntarily submitted himself to questioning," the lawyer said.
The man's family contacted Freeman on Sunday because "police were questioning him for quite some time," Freeman said. He contacted police, told them he represented the man and told them to stop questioning him.
He said he believes that his client will be arrested. UConn police said they "had evidence connecting my client to the stabbing," Freeman said. "They said they had an eyewitness."
Freeman said that his client was not involved in the stabbing or any altercation.
UConn police said Monday that they are working with state police detectives to solve the case. UConn police Maj. Ronald Blicher said that police do not have a suspect.
"We are increasing patrols on our own and we're dedicating a lot of people to it," Blicher said.
Freeman said that in addition to questioning his client, police executed a search warrant at the man's home Sunday night and seized some property.
Also, state police sources said Monday that they were perplexed that UConn police did not call for assistance when more than half a dozen state troopers were monitoring off-campus parties a mile away from where Howard was stabbed. . State police said they were not notified of the stabbing until nearly two hours after it occurred.
Pictures: Jasper Howard's Career At UConn
State police sources said troopers and a barracks commander were working at the nearby Carriage House apartments and went off duty at 2 a.m., about 20 minutes before UConn police contacted state police, sources said.
Pictures: UConn Mourns Death Of Jasper Howard
Howard, 20, a junior cornerback for the Huskies, was stabbed during an altercation near the Student Union after a party in the building. The stabbing occurred just after 12:30 a.m. Sunday on Hillside Road, near the center of campus. He was stabbed once in the abdomen.
More than 300 people attended the party, sponsored by the West Indian Student Awareness Organization.
"We are requesting that all images, photos, and video taken both inside and outside of the Student Union on the night of the stabbing incident be submitted to investigators for review," wrote Maj. Ronald Blicher of the UConn Police Department in an email to students Monday night.
"This can include images that you took, or that someone else has given to you. Remember that no image is insignificant," he wrote.
Investigators can be contacted by calling the UConn Police at 860-486-4800 or the UConn Police Tip Line at 860-486-4444, or by emailing the task force at CrimeAlerts@uconn.edu.
Meanwhile, police have questioned — but not arrested — a Bloomfield man about his possible role in the stabbing death of a University of Connecticut football player over the weekend, a Hartford attorney said.
Share your condolences for Jasper Howard
Deron Freeman said that he represents a man who was questioned Sunday in connection with the killing. He declined to identify his client, but did say that he is one of four men UConn police view as "main suspects."
UConn police arrived at the man's home Sunday and asked him to follow them back to Storrs for questioning, Freeman said Monday night. "He voluntarily submitted himself to questioning," the lawyer said.
The man's family contacted Freeman on Sunday because "police were questioning him for quite some time," Freeman said. He contacted police, told them he represented the man and told them to stop questioning him.
He said he believes that his client will be arrested. UConn police said they "had evidence connecting my client to the stabbing," Freeman said. "They said they had an eyewitness."
Freeman said that his client was not involved in the stabbing or any altercation.
UConn police said Monday that they are working with state police detectives to solve the case. UConn police Maj. Ronald Blicher said that police do not have a suspect.
"We are increasing patrols on our own and we're dedicating a lot of people to it," Blicher said.
Freeman said that in addition to questioning his client, police executed a search warrant at the man's home Sunday night and seized some property.
Also, state police sources said Monday that they were perplexed that UConn police did not call for assistance when more than half a dozen state troopers were monitoring off-campus parties a mile away from where Howard was stabbed. . State police said they were not notified of the stabbing until nearly two hours after it occurred.
Pictures: Jasper Howard's Career At UConn
State police sources said troopers and a barracks commander were working at the nearby Carriage House apartments and went off duty at 2 a.m., about 20 minutes before UConn police contacted state police, sources said.
It's clear by reading some of these disgusting comments that some of you are more focused on race and not that fact that a human being was murdered. This was a young man who was going somewhere with his life and not out on the streets. Those of you making derogatory comments better look in the mirror. I bet your life and things you have done are not a bowl of cherries. Give the man, his family, friends and the team some respect.
joeyboy1 (10/21/2009, 4:35 PM )