Yale grad student Kevin Jiang got out of his car to address a minor rear-end collision. It was a trap. An MIT artificial intelligence student had staged the crash and fired 8 shots at close range, then vanished for months — having carried out 4 earlier random shootings to disguise the real motive
Between December 2020 and February 2021, a series of unexplained shootings targeted occupied homes across New Haven, Connecticut. Each time, .45-caliber shell casings were found, yet no one was injured.
On February 6, 2021, hours after another residence was hit, 26-year-old Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was driving home when his Prius was struck by a dark-colored SUV. Jiang stepped out to inspect the collision.
Seconds later, the SUV’s driver opened fire, killing him at the roadside. Investigators soon discovered that the same firearm had been used in all five shootings, turning what appeared to be random attacks into a connected case.
Really disappointing to see that there’s no mention of any charges for the parents who clearly aided and embedded abetted a fugitive. they should be locked up for a decade or more for that.
At least you actually knew the real phrase. My dumb ass walked around for years thinking the phrase was "Making ends meat". (Like, you're holding things together well enough that you can afford to keep food on the table at the end of the day. Made total sense to me...). /sigh
I keep calling Edison bulbs, Einstein bulbs. I self-correct every time, but it will not stick. I picture Einstein thinking with a metaphorical lightbulb over his head, not that thief Edison.
They should absolutely have been charged- they drove him to Georgia and were giving him thousands in cash. That he was caught with his father's passport is also very sketchy
I looked it up and the guy pled guilty, but they never disclosed his motive. They suspect he was obsessed with the victim’s fiancée, but it was only ever an unproven theory.
No need to yell. You could have asked that from the beginning and gotten an answer. You also could have done some light reading of the article that was posted and also received your answer.
A series of random shootings all committed with a .45 caliber weapon? Well that starts to seem like a pattern. And now Kevin Jiang’s shooting looks like it’s part of that pattern, when in reality the other shootings were never intended to do anything other than act as a smokescreen for the intended killing.
The article is terrible. It doesn't even lay out a motive for the killing or connection to the victim. The “smokescreen” just brought more attention and witnesses.
And very rarley, why they don’t get caught. And in the end, why alot/most of them get caught isnt stupidity alone, its ego and then doing something stupid involving it.
The smokescreen argument by the article writer is nonsense and, I'm assuming, purely conjecture by that writer.
To me it seems like it was an attempt to see if police could track his actions using random cars that didn't belong to anyone. He probably thought if he test drove a car and committed a crime the police wouldn't be able to track it due to missing plates or the fact that the car wasn't on the road anymore. But how do you do that with a serious crime? Maybe random shootings would be a good test.
He does it a few times and, to his knowledge, it seems to work. So then he does what he actually wanted to do thinking he had sure free method to throw police off the trail. He gets spooked when the car gets stuck and then goes on the run.
Yeah this makes sense. Though I’m curious why he ditched his stuff at an Arby’s where it would be found and tie him to the shooting. It seems like the officers didn’t think much of him when they helped him out, and tbh I don’t think they would have made the connection if it weren’t for the bags he left behind.
From the title I assumed the killer had killed 4 times already, but random people so they wouldn't get the connection with this one. How would shooting up random houses look the same?
I’m not trying to be a dick, but this really is not hard to understand. Multiple shootings in the same area, with the same caliber, eventually leads to the conclusion maybe these things are connected.
If you’re thinking “What a shitty plan! That would never work!” I would assume that’s probably why we now know that’s what his plan was.
I’m with the previous poster. This in no way obscures the motive. Killing 4 random people and then your victim as the 5th is how you would obscure the motive. Not just shooting in the air a few times.
This is a lazy dismissal used by people who are blown away that there are people out there who attempt to communicate clearly and concisely. Who do you think AI was trained on? Additionally, you can look through my post and comment history and pretty quickly figure out I’m A) not a bot and B) vehemently anti-AI
It turned out that Japan has put a fresh idea on the solar table: a panel design built around titanium, not silicon. Some coverage describes it as potentially up to 1000 times more powerful than conventional cells.
Yeah after reading it I feel like maybe this shooter may also have a time machine. They came back in time preventing something much worse from happening with AI. 😆
To disguise the real motive... It's still not spelled out in the article. I can only guess the murderer was extremely jealous, which is also crazy that he was merely an acquaintance.
Last time I read this story, the shooter was a jealous lover / unrequited lover, he traveled from outside CT and tailed his target knowing exactly who he was. He crashed into his car to get him outside and shoot him. The only known motive was the target's connection to the shooter's "love interest".
Unrequited for sure. He had met the victims girlfriend at MIT, but the killer and the girlfriend had no actual relationship other than distant acquaintance, as I understand it.
Yeah I'm only speculating but i've heard a few counts of people being absolutely obsessed with others who have absolutely no idea they have any sort of connection, let alone friendship or acquaintance. Especially in this social media age with parasocial relationships and whatnot
Nowadays? You realize there used to be a book, delivered to every home in America, with local phone numbers and addresses? If you didn't want to be in it you had to specifically opt out.
Reminds me of a coworker at my old job. She had a conversation with this guy ONE TIME when she was helping him get something, and for like the next couple of months he’d come into the store almost every day and would stand next to his car outside if she wasn’t there, disgusting creep.
The killer murdered him because he was dating a girl that was nice to him once. She had a class with the killer or something, and I think she might have barely known the killers name.
It appears that his only connection to the victim was the victim’s fiancee so I’m guessing he was obsessed with her. My guess is that it especially stung him that she got engaged to another Asian man. I bet that made it easier for him to think that it should have been him.
Redditors often like to complain about the stupidity and laziness of police. And yes, sometimes, in some arenas, that is true. But holy crap - this story, about one regular guy's murder, demonstrated seriously excellent law enforcement work.
"Japan has put a fresh idea on the solar table: a panel design built around titanium, not silicon. Some coverage describes it as potentially up to 1000 times more powerful than conventional cells."
I feel like I’ve watch this documentary somewhere and had this nagging feeling that the girlfriend he was visiting didn’t even liked him that much like indifferent ?!. The crime was senseless nonetheless
https://youtu.be/m-E693iszwA?si=JyWNo8kB_2waE1Q- The 48 hour video tells the story in better detail. It's worth a watch. The crazier thing is that a random unrelated traffic stop because he got stuck on a train track is what led authorities to the primary suspect. They may have not solved the case if not for that stop.
Between December 2020 and February 2021, a series of unexplained shootings targeted occupied homes across New Haven, Connecticut. Each time, .45-caliber shell casings were found, yet no one was injured.
On February 6, 2021, hours after another residence was hit, 26-year-old Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was driving home when his Prius was struck by a dark-colored SUV. Jiang stepped out to inspect the collision.
Seconds later, the SUV’s driver opened fire, killing him at the roadside. Investigators soon discovered that the same firearm had been used in all five shootings, turning what appeared to be random attacks into a connected case.
Racism is an aggravating factor - some white incels think there's a pecking order with Asian men at the bottom. So it enrages them when they see Asian men with white women.
You really just didn't bother to read the article and jumped right into the comments with your nonsense icnely/racisty comment. Well done. The guy who was arrested, charged and eventually confessed to the murder was named "Qinxuan Pan", well done my man.
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u/Iambhalo 4d ago
Between December 2020 and February 2021, a series of unexplained shootings targeted occupied homes across New Haven, Connecticut. Each time, .45-caliber shell casings were found, yet no one was injured.
On February 6, 2021, hours after another residence was hit, 26-year-old Yale graduate student Kevin Jiang was driving home when his Prius was struck by a dark-colored SUV. Jiang stepped out to inspect the collision.
Seconds later, the SUV’s driver opened fire, killing him at the roadside. Investigators soon discovered that the same firearm had been used in all five shootings, turning what appeared to be random attacks into a connected case.
Read the full story here.