NEW HAVEN, Connecticut A Yale University graduate student described by officials as someone who wanted to use his education to improve the world was found fatally shot near the New Haven, Connecticut, campus and police said they are investigating whether he was targeted.
New Haven Police Chief Otoniel Reyes identified the slain student on Monday as 26-year-old Kevin Jiang of West Haven and asked for the public s help in identifying and capturing his killer.
Jiang was a former member of the Army National Guard and a second-year master s student at the Ivy League university s School of Environment. The Yale Community is grieving right now. This is the loss of an extraordinary young man. He was committed to applying his talents to improving the world, Yale President Peter Salovey said during Monday s news conference.