Connecticut police obtained an arrest warrant accusing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate of murder in the fatal shooting of a Yale University student.
The New Haven Police Department announced the charge against Qinxuan Pan in a Facebook post on Saturday. He remains at large, according to authorities.
Pan, 29, from Malden, Massachusetts, was previously named an “interested person” in the death of Kevin Jiang. The Yale Environmental School sophomore was shot and killed outside his car on February 6.
Police were investigating whether Jiang, 26, was the victim in a traffic accident that possibly occurred after a car accident.
During a news conference earlier this month, New Haven police chief Otoniel Reyes said that Pan should be considered “armed and dangerous” and the public should be “extremely cautious” around him.
Police said Pan was seen in a stolen Massachusetts vehicle at the Best Western hotel in North Haven the night of the shooting. Authorities had previously obtained two arrest warrants for Pan, one for possession of a stolen vehicle in North Haven and the other for theft of a vehicle outside Massachusetts.
On February 11, he was seen driving with relatives in Brookhaven, Georgia, according to the US Marshals Service. Agency officials believe he could stay with family or friends in the Atlanta suburb.
US Marshals said it was offering a $ 10,000 reward for information leading to the Pan.
An MIT spokesman previously told NBC News that Pan received university graduate degrees in computer science and mathematics in June 2014 and has been enrolled as a graduate student in the electrical engineering and computer science department since September 2014.
Jiang’s fiancee graduated in biological engineering at MIT in 2020. It is not clear whether she knew Pan.
