Published February 10, 2021 •
Updated on February 10, 2021 at 3:45 pm
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New Haven police have identified a person of interest in the shooting death of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang.
Jiang was shot dead on Lawrence Street Saturday night.
Police said they are looking for 29-year-old Qinxuan Pan as a person of interest in the case. Officials said Pan should be considered armed and dangerous and the public should use extreme caution if they come into contact with him.
Pan was last seen at the Best Western hotel in North Haven. His last known address is in Malden, Massachusetts and he is a graduate of MIT.
Police are looking into whether Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang, who shot to death in Connecticut, was a targeted victim in a road rage incident that possibly occurred after a car accident.
Police investigators are looking into whether a Yale graduate student shot to death over the weekend in Connecticut was a targeted victim in a road rage
Old Campus at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut on Nov 28, 2012. [Photo/Agencies]
The shooting death of a 26-year-old Chinese American graduate student at Yale University over the weekend doesn t appear to be a random act, and he may have been targeted, police said Monday.
Kevin Jiang, a second-year master s student in the forestry program at the Yale School of the Environment, was shot and killed in his car Saturday night near his fiancée s house in New Haven, Connecticut.
Shortly after 8:30 pm Saturday, New Haven police responded to callers reporting the sound of multiple gunshots. They found Jiang lying on the road near his car, which had rear-end damage.