Man accused of killing Yale grad student returned to Conn.

<p>NEW HAVEN, Conn. &mdash; A man charged with killing a Yale graduate student three months ago has been brought back to Connecticut to face murder and larceny charges after being captured in Alabama.</p>
<p>U.S. marshals said Qinxuan Pan was extradited back to New Haven on Wednesday night and is expected to appear in court Thursday.</p>
<p>An international arrest warrant had been issued for Pan in connection with the killing of Kevin Jiang on a New Haven street on Feb. 6. Marshals offered a $10,000 reward for information leading to Pan’s arrest.</p>
<p>It was not clear if Pan, 30, has a lawyer who could respond to the allegations.</p>
<p>He was arrested in Montgomery, Alabama, on May 14. Authorities have not released details of how they found him.</p>
<p>Jiang, 26, was found wounded by multiple gunshots and lying outside his car on a New Haven street at about 8:30 a.m. that day. </p>
<p>Police have not released information about a motive for the shooting.</p>
<p>Jiang, who grew up in Chicago, was a graduate student at Yale’s School of the Environment. He was an Army veteran who graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2016 with a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies, according to an obituary prepared by his family. Before his death, he had just been engaged to be married.</p>
<p>Pan is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was working as a researcher in MIT’s computer science and artificial intelligence laboratory, according to his Facebook page. He is a U.S. citizen who was born in Shanghai, China. His last known address was in Malden, Massachusetts.</p>