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Kevin Zian, a 26-year-old graduate student at Yale University's Environmental School, was found dead on February 6, 2021 with multiple gunshot wounds outside a car in New Haven, Connecticut.
Jiang's death sparked a nationwide manhunt until authorities arrested Qinxuan Pan, originally a research institute at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in China.
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Kevin Jean was studying at Yale when he was killed in Connecticut. (Yale University Police Station)
David Zaweski, the leading murder detective in Jiang's murder, spoke about the investigation into the new “48 Hours” special, the Ivy League Murder.”
According to the episode, Jiang's murder initially appeared to be a violent incident of road rage. But Zawesky thought there might be more to this incident.
“It seems a little more personal.” He said, “48 hours.” “What happens when someone lies on the ground and doesn't move, what does someone continue to fire you?”
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Investigators had little image of the dark SUV from surveillance footage from the scene. However, they soon received a call from nearby North Haven police and shared information about a driver named Qinxuan Pan. He was stuck on the railway tracks and called 911 about 30 minutes after Jiang's murder. An officer, unaware of Jiang's murder at the time, questioned Pan and helped him get a tow and a nearby hotel room.
North Haven police also mentioned another 911 call that took place the following day from Irby, next to the hotel where Pan was taken. Irby employees found a bag containing a gun and a .45 caliber bullet. At the scene where jiang was killed, authorities had already discovered eight .45 caliber shell casings near the victim's body.
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Qinxuan Pan killed a Yale graduate student in Connecticut in February and sought a flight in Alabama detention. (Distribution materials)
Zaweski said investigators tried to find a connection between Pan and Jiang using Facebook. They discover that Jiang's fiancee Perry, listed as a friend of bread.
Authorities learned that Perry and Pan met each other in a Christian group when they were undergraduates at MIT. Perry was photographed when he spoke to Pan during a university swing dance in March 2020. They were seemingly just acquaintances, and Perry had not communicated with Pan since leaving Mitt to Yale.
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“There was a secret obsession with Pan happening behind the scenes that Kevin hadn't noticed, and it seemed that Shion hadn't noticed,” Zaweski said.
Jiang's murder comes just a week after Perry posted engagement news on Facebook. On the day of the murder, Jiang and Perry spent the day together.
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Kevin Jean proposed to Zion Perry on January 30th, 2021. The year after we met at the retreat of a church in Connecticut. (Facebook)
In the months leading up to Jiang's death, the gunman had fired .45 caliber bullets at several homes, but in such cases no one was hurt. Investigators believed that Pan was responsible for those shootings as part of a plan to mislead Jiang's murder by believing that his death was just a random case.
“This was not a random incident,” Zaweski said. “He was targeted.”
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After a nationwide manhunt, authorities arrested bread in Birmingham, Alabama on May 14, 2021, rented it under a fake name, $19,000 in cash, seven mobile phones, seven SIM cards, father I owned a passport.
He was later charged with murder, then accepted a plea bargain and was sentenced to 35 years in April 2024.
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Qinxuan Pan, accused of shelling Yale graduate student and US military veteran Kevin Jan, will appear in court on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. (Fox News)
At the time of his death, Jiang was a honourable Christian, a veteran of the US military and a reserve for the National Guard. He had a graduate degree from Yale University in Environment and was killed a week before his 27th birthday.
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“Kevin's life was short but colorful, bringing so much joy, happiness and positivity to those around him,” his mother, Linda Liu, said at the funeral. “Kevin is now leaving us, but Kevin is the most wonderful gift God has ever given me on earth.”
Danielle Wallace of Fox News contributed to this report.
