Yale Murder Update: New Haven Police Name Person Interested in Kevin Jiang Murder

NEW HAVEN, Connecticut – Police are looking for a 29-year-old Massachusetts man as a person of interest in the fatal shooting of a Yale graduate student last weekend in Connecticut, authorities said Wednesday.

The person wanted for questioning in the case, Qinxuan Pan, must be considered armed and dangerous, New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes told a press conference.

Pan’s last known address is in Malden, Massachusetts, and he is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Kevin Jiang, 26, a student at the Yale School of the Environment, was shot several times and found lying in front of his car on a New Haven street on Saturday night.

Police said they were investigating whether he had been killed in a road rage incident following a car crash.

Jiang, originally from Seattle, was recently engaged to get married. He earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies from the University of Washington and was an Army veteran and member of the Army National Guard, according to his LinkedIn page and Yale officials.

In the military, he was a tank operator and a chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear officer, according to Yale.

Pan, who is wanted on a warrant for possession of a stolen vehicle, is a person interested in Jiang’s murder, Reyes said.

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“He is not a suspect at the moment,” Reyes said.

Unable to find a list of public phones for Pan.

Pan was last seen at a hotel in North Haven, Connecticut, and is believed to be out of state, police said.

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