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This late Sunday morning crept gray and cold and ugly on the campus of the state university. Police lights flashed in the downpour. Yellow tape cordoned off 300 yards of Hillside Road, guarding a crime scene that seemed unreal, screaming of a crime unimaginable.
Tears fell hard from the October sky.
Jasper Howard, who had helped lead UConn to a football victory over Louisville on Saturday, lay dying , stabbed shortly after midnight by an unknown perpetrator outside a homecoming-weekend dance at the student union. Rain gathered on the Husky Dog statue outside of Gampel Pavilion. Yes, Howard was stabbed fewer than 100 yards from the symbol of all that is good and endearing about UConn athletics.
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