Bail set at US$20 million for murder suspect Qinxuan Pan, charged with killing Yale graduate Kevin Jiang
- Qinxuan Pan, a US citizen born in Shanghai, is accused of shooting Kevin Jiang multiple times
- Pan’s lawyer says client is an ‘affable’ young man and that he intends to plead not guilty
A Connecticut judge set US$20 million bail on Thursday for a man charged with killing a Yale graduate student and eluding authorities for three months before being arrested in Alabama, where officials said he was caught living under a fake name with US$19,000 in cash, a passport and several phones.
Qinxuan Pan was extradited to Connecticut on Wednesday night and arraigned Thursday in New Haven Superior Court. He is charged with murder and larceny in connection with the fatal shooting of Kevin Jiang on a New Haven street on February 6.
Pan’s lawyer, William Gerace, said Pan intends to plead not guilty to the charges. He said Pan, 30, has no criminal record and is an “affable” young man. Pan appeared during the hearing via video from a lock-up.
“I can’t imagine him doing this crime … and I look forward to finding out the true facts,” Gerace said in a phone interview after the court hearing.
Jiang, 26, had recently been engaged to be married. His fiancée, Zion Perry, graduated from MIT last year. Law enforcement officials have not disclosed any connections between Pan, Perry and the killing of Jiang.