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Police responded to  a shooting in New Haven. When they arrive, they find Kevin Jiang shot to death in the street. About 100 feet away is his car, a Prius.  Jiang has been shot multiple times.  

Officers at the scene of the shooting first consider it to be a possible case of "road rage". Police get Surveillance video from a nearby home and playing the video, they can hear the sound of a car crash, before Kevin Jiang's Prius enters the frame. His car is followed closely by a dark SUV.  Jiang's Prius comes to a stop while the SUV reverses backward. Jiang exits his car and is walking toward the SUV as he walks out of the frame on the surveillance video. Seconds after Jiang is not visible on the video, eight shots and a scream can be heard on the recording. 

A witness says she looks out her window after hearing the gunshots and sees the shooter standing over Jiang, who is already down on the ground in the street. The gunman fires additional shots at close range. Detectives at the scene recognize Jiang has the appearance of stippling on his face, something that can only happen from being shot at close range. New Haven Homicide detective David Zaweski believes the evidence of close-range gunfire is indicative of something more than a "random shooting" or even a case of "road rage". 

On the same night Jiang is killed, police in the nearby town of North Haven respond to a separate incident: a security guard at Sims Metal Management, a scrapyard near a highway entrance, calls police about a suspicious vehicle, a dark SUV has driven through his yard. North Haven officers respond and find the vehicle is stuck on snowy railroad tracks. Officer Jeffrey Mills gets the drivers identification, his name is Qinxuan Pan, and his license comes back clean.   Sgt. Mills doesn't notice anything odd. He does make a mental note of a yellow jacket, a black briefcase, and a blue bag with a Massachusetts logo.  Officers Pan get a hotel room for the night.   

 At 11 a.m. as Sgt. Mills is finishing his shift a call comes in to police from an employee at Arby's. The employee reports finding a bag with a gun and bullets inside. Sgt Mills stops by to check out the call and sees the gun and bullets, but also in the bag was a yellow jacket, black briefcase, and a blue bag with a Massachusetts logo. Recognizing these are the items he saw in Pan's car the night before and the Best Western hotel where Pan was dropped off,  is next door to the Arby's. 

By the time the call came in from Arby's, Sgt.Jeffrey Mills had heard about the homicide in New Haven the previous night and knows they are looking for a dark colored SUV. Mills goes to the Best Western to check on Qixuan Pan and finds out he did check in but hasn't checked out. Mills notifies New Haven PD what they have found. The .45 caliber handgun and the bullets found in the bag at Arby's match the casings found at the scene of the Kevin Jiang homicide. When they get to Pan's room, it's empty.  Pan checked in, but he didn't stay.   

The SUV Qinxuan Pan stuck on the railroad tracks was still at the tow facility, and police find out is it has been reported stolen from a car dealership in Malden, where Pan lives. The dealership employee tells police that Pan had asked to borrow the car for a test drive and had never returned with the vehicle   

The New Haven Police are working on a homicide, the Malden police are working on a stolen vehicle, and the North Haven police have come in contact with the stolen vehicle from Malden that is now suspected of being used in the New Haven Homicide, as well as the gun and ammunition matching the gun and ammo used in the killing of Kevin Jiang in New Haven. And all of the departments are looking for the one man that ties all these things together, Qinxuan Pan. 

Joining Nancy Grace today: 

• Peter Elikann  - Veteran Boston-based Criminal Defense Attorney, Author of “Superpredators: The Demonization of Our Childr