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UNH retires Ryan O’Shea’s No. 5 after death

By Drooid · Oct 31, 2026 · How we work

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University of New Haven retired Ryan O’Shea’s number-five jersey at a Friday 8:40 p.m. ceremony in Northford Ice Pavilion.
O’Shea died earlier this month when a wrong-way driver struck his car on I-91 in North Haven.
His family attended the ceremony.
His mother received a number-five jersey from Wentworth School of Technology.
The number five will never be worn again, with his name added beside the Charger statue.

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A wrong-way collision on Interstate 91 killed O’Shea on Oct. 16, 2026.
Guillermo Carmona-Lopez, a 31-year-old Mexican national, had been removed from the U.S. in 2013 and reentered illegally twice.
Carmona-Lopez suffered life-threatening injuries and was taken to Yale New Haven Hospital.
O’Shea was a criminal-justice major, NYPD intern, and Kappa Sigma president at UNH.
Connecticut State Police Collision Analysis Squad continues investigating the multi-vehicle crash.

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University Retires Jersey

University of New Haven retired Ryan O’Shea’s number-five jersey at a Friday 8:40 p.m. ceremony in Northford Ice Pavilion.
O’Shea died earlier this month when a wrong-way driver struck his car on I-91 in North Haven.
His family attended the ceremony.
His mother received a number-five jersey from Wentworth School of Technology.
The number five will never be worn again, with his name added beside the Charger statue.

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