How an MIT graduate student planned a Yale student's near perfect murder
CBSN
Kevin Jiang was a 26-year-old Yale graduate student, an Army veteran, and, his friends say, a man of faith who volunteered with the homeless. He seemed to have no enemies, and no one could figure out why someone may have targeted him on Feb. 6, 2021, when he was shot in the street not far from his fiancée's apartment in New Haven, Connecticut. Jiang had been driving down the street when his car was struck from behind, and when he got out, possibly to exchange information with the other driver police say, that driver opened fire, shooting him eight times.
At first, it seemed like the murder may have been a random shooting -- possibly an act of road rage. But as detectives looked into the case, they began to unravel the truth -- unbeknownst to Jiang, someone had meticulously planned his death. Who would want to kill Kevin Jiang? And how would detectives track down the killer?
Thew story begins with another shooting in December 2020, nearly two months before Jiang's murder.
