The suspect of the murder of Yale Chinese student, Pan Qinxuan, was caught in Alabama. (Taken from Facebook)
MIT student Qinxuan Pan, 29, who is suspected of shooting and killing Kevin Jiang, a 26-year-old Chinese-American master’s student at Yale University, was arrested in Alabama on the 13th.
Massachusetts State Police spokesman David Procopio said Pan was taken into custody by U.S. Marshals in Alabama late on the 13th and early on the 14th; he said Massachusetts State Police also assisted in the arrest.
Matthew Duffy, a deputy sheriff in Connecticut, also confirmed the arrest, saying in a press release that the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Central Alabama Division of the Marshals Service and the Montgomery Police Department (MPD) had been arrested. U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, the Central Alabama Division of the Marshals Service and the Montgomery Police Department have jointly arrested “fugitive Pan Qinxuan.
On the evening of February 6, Kevin Chiang, a 26-year-old master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment, was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds outside his car with his fiancée, Zion Perry, whom he had proposed to only a week earlier.
Perry, previously an undergraduate student at MIT, was photographed talking with Pan Chin-Hsuan at a prom in March 2020, but authorities have not disclosed any other connection to the case.
Federal marshals launched a nationwide manhunt for the prime suspect, Pan Chin-hsuan, who was on an Interpol red notice in early April.
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