((HT: Hartford Courant/Altimari, Owens, Dempsey))
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.
Deron Freeman said he represents a man who was questioned Sunday in connection with the killing of Jasper Howard. He declined to identify his client, but did say 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."
A hearing was held earlier Monday for 21-year-old Johnny Hood, who was arrested for breaching the peace at the same party, but his representation claims that Hood was simply at the "wrong place at the wrong time."
WTNH's Erin Cox reports that one of the UConn football players attending the party actually pointed Hood out as someone involved in the melee on campus.
Tina Detelj's piece starts team coverage for WTNH-TV
Followed by John Pierson's piece
UConn players will be available for the first time to address the death of Jasper Howard at their Tuesday media availability.
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