And although Perry was barely an acquaintance of Pan and hadn't communicated with him since she left MIT and moved to New Haven to attend Yale, the homicide detectives felt they had more than a break.

Qinxuan Pan, 32, pleaded guilty Thursday and faces 35 years. Three years ago, police said he ambushed, shot and killed Yale grad student Kevin Jiang a few blocks away from the New Haven campus.

A Yale graduate student and U.S. army veteran was killed in what initially appeared to be a random act of violence, and a ...

They both loved nature, attended church, and were science students: Jiang was a graduate student in the Yale School of the ... The driver was Qinxuan Pan, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...