Bond For Qinxuan Pan In Yale Student Murder Stays At $20M: Report

NEW HAVEN, CT - A New Haven Superior Court judge upheld the $20 million bond for Qinxuan Pan, the MIT scientist on trial for the murder of Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang of West Haven earlier this year, the Hartford Courant reported. The state Supreme Court wanted a review of what's reported as a "potentially record-setting amount."

The 30-year-old Pan was on the run for months after the February slaying, hunted by US Marshals and found in Alabama with almost $20,000 in cash and a family member’s passport. The prosecutor argued that Pan was an extraordinary flight risk, it was reported.

But also Wednesday, the Courant reported Jiang was “executed with five gunshots to his face and head, plus additional gunshots down his torso, one arm and one leg, Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Stacey Miranda revealed for the first time Wednesday.”

Pan is being held at the Cheshire Correctional Institution.

Jiang, 26, a U. S. Army veteran, was engaged to be married to a woman who Pan also knew from MIT.

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