Two months after the assassination of U.S. Army veteran and Kevin Jiang University student at Yale University, the man suspected of his death is still at large in an international hunt.
At the request of the US Marshals, an international ‘red notice’ warrant for Qinxuan Pan was issued on Interpol. The warrant, as described by Interpol, ” is a request to law enforcement agencies worldwide to locate and arrest a person pending extradition, surrender or similar legal action. ‘Pan is wanted for murder and second-degree grievances.
Pan, a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and suspect in Jiang’s death, was last seen, according to U.S. marshals, as he rode with family members in Brookhaven, Georgia, on February 11. He was seen wearing a black backpack and acting weird. It was just five days after the fatal shooting at 26-year-old Jiang, a graduate student at the Yale School of the Environment.
Jiang was found on the ground outside his vehicle on February 6, where he was shot several times. He had just introduced himself to his fiancée, another Yale student.
Police are investigating whether Jiang was targeted as a result of road rage following a car accident, but authorities need to confirm a motive.
Pan should be considered “armed and dangerous” and the public should be “extremely careful” around him, New Haven police chief Otoniel Reyes told a news conference shortly after the incident.
Authorities earlier obtained two arrest warrants for Pan for possession of two stolen vehicles – one in North Haven, CT, on the night of the shooting and another outside Massachusetts.
With a view to Pan since early February and the official launch of the hunt on March 1, the red notice will now expand the search to 194 countries, displaying the notice for international law enforcement in different languages, said Matthew Duffy, the supervising deputy and public information officer for the District of Connecticut Violent Fugitive Task Force, in an interview with Fox News.
According to Yale officials, Jiang would graduate with a master’s degree in environmental science from Yale next fall. The U.S. Army veteran and reservist was just a week shy of celebrating his 27th birthday.
Authorities have not said whether Pan, who was born in Shanghai, could flee the United States or where he is at the moment.