NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- A former Massachusetts Institute of Technology researcher has been sentenced in the 2021 murder of a Yale graduate student.Thirty-three-year-old Qinxuan Pan pleaded guilty in February to murdering 26-year-old Kevin Jiang.Pan was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison. During the hearing, he apologized and took responsibility for his actions. 'I feel sorry for what my actions caused and for everyone affected,' Pan said. 'I fully accept my penalties.
He was found dead near his car, which had rear-end damage.Jiang was a Chicago native, an Army veteran and had gotten engaged just days before he was killed.Police determined the shooting was not random and soon named Pan, who was a graduate student at MIT at the time, as a person of interest.Pan was eventually arrested in Alabama in May 2021 after a nationwide manhunt.
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