John Williams III , 22 , was sentenced to 18 years for manslaughter in the first degree . He stabbed University of Connecticut football player Brandon Howard in 2009 . Ron Blicher of the UConn Police Department said in 2009 that more than 40 investigators from his department and the Connecticut State Police conducted more than 200 interviews during the course of the investigation . Howard was hit in the head during a fight outside a campus dance .
John Williams III , 22 , was sentenced to 18 years for manslaughter in the first degree . He stabbed University of Connecticut football player Brandon Howard in 2009 . Howard was hit in the head during a fight outside a campus dance .