Pan remains at large, and the New Haven Police Department is expected to provide additional information regarding the case on Monday, Capt. Anthony Duff, a spokesman for the department, confirmed to CNN.
Pan came into contact with the North Haven police station ‘shortly after’, a New Haven police chief, Otoniel Reyes, said during a news conference on Wednesday, adding that ‘you have to be extremely careful when you come in contact with this person. come ‘public should regard Pan as’ armed and dangerous’.
Jiang, a second-year master’s student at the Yale School of the Environment, was killed about one mile from Yale’s main campus. New Haven police responded shortly after 8:30 p.m. to reports of multiple shots and a person being shot. According to a Yale police news release, witnesses saw “a shiny new black vehicle fleeing the scene”.
New Haven police did not comment on whether any motives could be determined, whether the two knew each other and whether Pan was definitely involved in a car accident with Jiang that preceded the murder.
There are also two other warrants for Pan: one for theft of a vehicle from Massachusetts, and one for possession of a stolen vehicle in North Haven, Reyes said. The FBI is assisting with other federal partners, including the U.S. Marshals, ATF and DEA, with the investigation.