The U.S. Marshals Service announced a nationwide manhunt for Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researcher Qinxuan Pan on Monday evening (March 1). Qinxuan Pan is a wanted suspect in the murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang, following unsuccessful police attempts to apprehend him in Georgia.
According to law enforcement accounts, Pan, 29, a 6-foot-tall Asian male weighing 170 pounds, was last seen in the early morning hours of Feb. 11 while driving with his Family in Brookhaven or Duluth, Georgia. The U.S. Marshals Service said Pan’s family told investigators that the last Time they saw Pan, he was carrying a black backpack and acting strangely.
On Saturday, the New Haven, Connecticut, Police Department obtained an arrest warrant charging Pan with the murder of Kevin Chiang.
According to a report filed by police in Mansfield, Massachusetts, Pan took a blue GMC Terrain for a “test drive” at a car dealership showroom on Feb. 6 and never returned it, driving out of the showroom around 11 a.m. He then drove to Connecticut. He then drove to Connecticut. Police had also obtained a warrant for Pan Chin Hsien’s arrest in the car theft case before obtaining a murder warrant.
Police in Malden, Massachusetts, questioned a relative who lived with Pan, who reportedly changed his cell phone number and would not say where he was going. Police in North Haven, Connecticut, towed the car later that night after Pan had driven in a junkyard area and gotten it stuck on the railroad tracks. North Haven police did not know at the time that Pan was involved in the New Haven homicide.
The U.S. Marshals Service is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading directly to Pan’s location.
Authorities said Pan Qinxuan is considered armed and dangerous and that any individual should not attempt to arrest him.
The victim, Kevin Chiang, a graduate student at Yale University’s School of the Environment, was found lying outside his car, shot several times, with gunshot wounds to his head, neck, torso and extremities, on the night of Feb. 6, when he was shot and killed at the corner of Lawrence St. and Nicholl St. in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood.
At the time of his death, Kevin Chiang was a full-time National Guard second lieutenant providing support for the COVID-19 response.
A week before the fatal shooting, Kevin Chiang proposed to his girlfriend, Zion Perry, a graduate student at Yale University. Perry was an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) a year earlier.
MIT officials confirmed to Fox News that Pan and Perry had attended MIT at the same time, but authorities have not publicly announced whether any connection between the two men led to the murder. There are photos showing that Penn and Perry spoke at an MIT event in March 2020, but it is unclear if there are further ties between the two.
Kevin Chiang grew up in Chicago and completed his college studies at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before he was murdered, he was pursuing a graduate degree at Yale University’s School of the Environment.
MIT school officials told the media that Pan received a bachelor’s degree in computer science and mathematics from the school in June 2014 and was accepted to the school as a graduate student in electrical engineering and computer science.
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