Qinxuan Pan Arrested by U.S. Marshals Over Fatal Shooting of Yale Student Kevin Jiang
A man accused of shooting dead a Yale graduate student has been arrested in Alabama after three months on the run.
Qinxuan Pan was detained by U.S. Marshals in Montgomery over the death of Kevin Jiang, 26, on February 6.
Police had applied for an arrest warrant for Pan, a graduate student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on charges of murder and larceny.
The warrant came with a $5 million bond. It said Pan should be considered "armed and dangerous" and urged anyone who located him to "use extreme caution" and contact the police.
The 29-year-old is accused of shooting Jiang on a street close to the Yale campus in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also accused of stealing a car in Massachusetts and driving it to New Haven.
According to Boston 25 News, Pan's last known address was in Malden, Massachusetts. The suspect was reportedly last spotted near Atlanta in February.
The U.S. Marshals Service had offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to his capture.
Pan, a U.S. citizen born in Shanghai, China, was detained by the U.S. Marshals Gulf Coast Regional Fugitive Task Force, alongside the U.S. Marshals Middle District of Alabama and the Montgomery Police Department.
Local media said Pan had been enrolled as a graduate student at MIT since September 2014, having received an undergraduate degree from the same institution in June of that year.
Jiang, who had become engaged to Zion Perry, another MIT graduate, a week before his death, was an Army veteran from Washington state. At the time of the shooting, he was a second-year student in the forestry master's program at Yale's School of the Environment.
MIT said in a statement in February: "We extend our heartfelt condolences to [Perry], the Yale community and all those impacted in this unfathomably painful time."
Jiang, who was found dead with multiple gunshot wounds, had been operating a car at the time of the shooting, police said. Officers did not specify whether the victim was inside or outside the vehicle when he was shot.
Authorities are said to be investigating whether the incident followed a road rage incident or Jiang was specifically targeted. No motive for the shooting has yet been identified.
"We're exploring absolutely every angle," New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes said in February.
Around 250 people are shot and killed each year in Massachusetts, according to statistics compiled by GunPolicy.org. This figure has steadily increased over the past two decades. Annual firearm deaths were closer to 200 in 1999.
Newsweek has contacted the U.S. Marshals Service for comment.
