VERNON, Conn. (AP) — A lawyer for one of two men accused of wielding knives in a fight that left a University of Connecticut football player dead tells The Associated Press his client has agreed to plead guilty to assaulting a different person and serve more than two years in prison.
Hakim Muhammad is expected to take a plea deal Friday in Rockville Superior Court. His lawyer, Gerald Klein, says Muhammad will plead guilty to assault and another charge in the wounding of former UConn player Brian Parker. During the October 2009 fight on the Storrs campus, another man stabbed Parker’s teammate, Jasper Howard, to death.
Parker suffered minor injuries.
Twenty-two-year-old John Lomax III pleaded guilty to manslaughter in Howard’s death and was sentenced last month to 18 years in prison.
