Christian Haley Prince (July 8, 1971 – February 17, 1991) was a Yale University student whose murder in New Haven, Connecticut, highlighted racial and class tensions between town and gown.
The evening of February 16, 1991, after having dined at Mory's and attending a party at Sterling-Sheffield-Strathcona Hall, Prince left his friends and began walking to his off-campus apartment on Whitney Avenue to rest for lacrosse practice the next day.
[1] Prince was found lying on the steps of St. Mary's Church, New Haven on Hillhouse Avenue, dead of a bullet wound to the heart, in the early morning hours of February 17.
[1] His death stunned the campus, and more than 1,000 people attended his funeral in Washington, D.C., where Prince's brother Ted, a Yale graduate, gave the eulogy.
[1] Yale's president, Benno Schmidt, resigned the following year after a contentious six-year term filled with myriad problems, including badly deteriorated town-gown relations highlighted by Prince's murder.