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"STORRS -- The stepfather of slain UConn football player Jasper Howard says he has faith that his son's killer will be caught. \"The captain of the State Police told me the case will be solved,\" Henry Williams said Tuesday. \"And I believe him.\" Howard, 20, was stabbed early Sunday morning on the UConn campus just outside the Student Union. Police arrested one man who may have been involved in a fight that evening, though they have not charged anyone with stabbing Howard yet. Johnny Hood, a 21-year-old from Hartford, has been charged only with breach of peace and interfering with an officer. Hartford attorney Deron Freeman said Monday he represents a man who has had his home searched in connection with the stabbing and that the unidentified man was going to be arrested. But UConn police said that there have been no developments in the case and that no arrest is imminent. Williams, Howard's mother Joanglia Howard, and Jasper Howard's uncle David Donaldson arrived in Connecticut from Miami on Monday and spent nearly two days in the state. They have been talking with Howard's teammates, coaches and friends, in addition to making funeral arraignments and asking local police about the investigation into Howard's death. \"We have a lot of pain. We still have hurt,\" said Williams, who added that the group will return home Wednesday morning. \"But we can go home now feeling a little better because a lot of our questions have been answered.\" Although the details of the incident that left Howard's teammate Bryan Parker injured and the promising young cornerback dead, Howard's teammates and coaches say they doubt he was the instigator of any fight. \"I can't see him as one in the middle of a fight,\" linebacker Lawrence Wilson said. \"I can see him being one trying to break it up.\" UConn coach Randy Edsall said Tuesday that he wasn't sure what occurred following a school-sanctioned event could be called a fight. \"When I hear 'fight' I usually think of people throwing fists. I haven't gotten that information,\" Edsall said. \"Young kids, could it be verbal jostling? Yeah. But I can't comment on what I've heard or read about the fighting part. I don't know of anybody that's kind of substantiated that.\" Edsall, much as Williams did, expressed his support for local and state police in their efforts to catch Howard's killer. \"We've got complete confidence that they'll do their job and apprehend whoever committed this senseless, violent act,\" Edsall said. A funeral is tentatively scheduled for Monday in the Miami area, and the entire UConn football team is preparing to attend. One thing Edsall made clear to his players not long after Howard died was reiterated in an informal meeting the players had with Howard's family on Monday: revenge should not be an option. \"The message was: We've lost one young person. We don't need to lose any more,\" Edsall said."
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