... campus of the University of Connecticut, a young football player laid dying.

Jasper Howard, a defensive back who had helped his Husky team earn a victory in the school's homecoming game against Louisville hours earlier, lay in the arms of teammate Kashif Moore.

Howard was mortally wounded, stabbed in the abdomen, his promising young life was slipping away as Moore held him.

No doubt Howard fought hard, but he couldn't be saved.

UConn Nation lost their "Jazz." A mother lost her son, two sisters lost the brother they adored, and his unborn child lost its father.

Jazz Howard was a special player. He was a young man of great potential, a young man with a future who was taken from his college, his football te...

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