Connecticut police have obtained an arrest warrant accusing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate of the fatal shooting of a Yale University student.
The New Haven Police Department announced the charge against Qinxuan Pan in a Facebook message on Saturday. According to authorities, he remains at large.
Pan, 29, of Malden, Massachusetts, was earlier named a “person of interest” in the death of Kevin Jiang. The second-year student at the Yale School of the Environment was shot dead outside his car on Feb. 6.
Police are investigating whether Jiang, 26, was a targeted victim in a road rage that may have occurred after a car accident.
At a news conference earlier this month, New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes said Pan should be considered ‘armed and dangerous’ and that the public should be ‘extremely careful’ around him.
Police said Pan was seen the night of the shooting in a stolen vehicle from Massachusetts at the Best Western Hotel in North Haven. Authorities earlier obtained two warrants for Pan, one for possession of a stolen vehicle in North Haven and another for stealing a vehicle from Massachusetts.
According to the U.S. Marshals Service, he was spotted driving with family members in Brookhaven, Georgia on February 11. Agency officials believe he was able to stay with family or friends in suburban Atlanta.
US Marshals said they are offering a $ 10,000 reward for information leading to Pan.
An MIT spokesman earlier told NBC News that Pan had obtained undergraduate degrees in computer science and mathematics from the university in June 2014 and had been enrolled as a graduate student in the electrical engineering and computer science department since September 2014.
Jiang’s fiancé is studying in 2020 with a degree in biological engineering from MIT. It is not clear if she knew Pan.
