Former MIT Researcher Who Killed Yale Graduate Student Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison

Former MIT Researcher Who Killed Yale Graduate Student Sentenced to 35 Years in Prison
A memorial for Yale School of the Environment student Kevin Jiang near the scene of his shooting at the corner of Nicoll and Lawrence Street in New Haven, Conn., on Feb. 8, 2021. Arnold Gold/Hearst Connecticut Media via AP
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NEW HAVEN, Conn.—A former researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was sentenced Tuesday to 35 years in prison for the killing of a Yale University graduate student found shot outside his car on a Connecticut street.

Qinxuan Pan, 33, who pleaded guilty to murder in February, apologized during a hearing in a New Haven courtroom packed with family and friends of the victim, Kevin Jiang.