Killing of Yale student Kevin Jiang: person of interest Qinxuan Pan stole car on day of crime, police say
- Authorities are still hunting for the ‘dangerous’ MIT graduate, who took a vehicle from a showroom for a test drive and never returned it
- Jiang, who had just got engaged, was shot multiple times and found lying outside his car
A person of interest in the slaying of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang this month stole a car on the day of the killing before driving to Connecticut, according to a police report.
The report filed by police in Mansfield, Massachusetts, alleged Qinxuan Pan took a blue GMC Terrain for a test drive from a showroom on February 6 and never returned it. Pan also allegedly put a commercial Connecticut licence plate on the vehicle to conceal its identity, the New Haven Register reported.
The 29-year-old Pan has not been identified as a suspect but is considered a person of interest in the killing of 26-year-old Jiang, who was shot multiple times and found lying outside his car on a New Haven street.
Police have said they believe Pan was in the area at the time of the shooting, the newspaper reported.
Jiang, a Seattle native, had recently got engaged to be married.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies at the University of Washington and was an Army veteran and Army National Guard member, according to his LinkedIn page and Yale officials.