{"id":4964,"date":"2011-03-28T15:37:21","date_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4964"},"modified":"2011-03-28T15:37:21","modified_gmt":"2011-03-28T19:37:21","slug":"man-who-killed-uconn-player-sentenced-to-18-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=4964","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Killed UConn Player Sentenced  To 18 Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VERNON, Conn. \u2014 The man who killed University of Connecticut football player <strong>Jasper Howard<\/strong> during an on-campus fight in 2009 was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison during an emotional court hearing at which he and <strong>Howard\u2019s<\/strong> mother wept.<\/p>\n<p><strong>John Lomax, III<\/strong>, of Bloomfield, stabbed the 20-year-old defensive back in the abdomen during a fight between a group of football players and a group that included <strong>Lomax<\/strong>, authorities said. Investigators believe the fight started over a comment a player made about a woman.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Howard<\/strong>, a Miami native whose nickname was <strong>Jazz<\/strong>, died at a hospital from a single wound to his abdomen, just hours after helping the Huskies to a homecoming game win over Louisville.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-year-old <strong>Lomax<\/strong> had been charged with murder, but in January pleaded no contest to first-degree manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>He broke down as he addressed <strong>Howard\u2019s<\/strong> family in court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know it hurts. I know it hurts.\u201d he said. \u201cI would never want this to happen to any family. You may despise me. I don\u2019t despise you. We\u2019re all God\u2019s children.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VERNON, Conn. \u2014 The man who killed University of Connecticut football player Jasper Howard during an on-campus fight in 2009 was sentenced Friday to 18 years in prison during an emotional court hearing at which he and Howard\u2019s mother wept. John Lomax, III, of Bloomfield, stabbed the 20-year-old defensive back in the abdomen during a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4964\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}