Jafar Karzoun, a 20-year-old University of Connecticut student, was punched in the face during a fight at Spring Weekend on campus in Storrs in 2011. He was knocked unconscious by the blow, hit his head on the concrete and suffered a massive head injury. He died about a week later.
The man who threw the fatal punch, Edi Rapo, a 19-year-old East Hartford teen, was sentenced to four-and-a-half years behind bars for manslaughter. The episode also led to an interesting civil dispute that’s headed for the state Appellate Court.
