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this week's 48 Hours investigates the murder of a newly engaged ivy league grad student 26 years old a Yale student
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and former former Army National Guardsman Kevin Jong was gunned down in February this was 2021 and it appeared
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to be road rage but authorities quickly began to question if he was in fact targeted 48 Hours correspondent anmie
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green investigates in the winter of 2020 an unknown gunman fired bullet into four
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homes in affluent New Haven neighborhoods homicide detective David zoy it's 45 caliber casings that were
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located at all four of those scenes fortunately no one was hurt but that changed when Yale graduate student Kevin
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Jong was gunned down in the street Kevin had recently proposed to his girlfriend
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Zion Perry moments before the shooting a dark SUV hit Kevin's car captured on a neighbor's surv surveillance camera we
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zoomed in for clarity you see Kevin's Prius pull into frame and the SUV pulls up behind
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him and then reverses out of frame you see Kevin exit his vehicle and then walk out of frame to approach the
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SUV seconds later eight shots were fired 45 caliber shell casings were left at the
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scene that same night in nearby North Haven a dark SUV got stuck on Snowy railroad tracks is there any way to get
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us stuck here local police responded on aware of Kevin's murder do you have your
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driver's license on you yes the driver was kining pan an MIT grad student police took note of a blue bag and
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briefcase in the car and pan left the scene in a tow truck 15 hours later word was now out about the murder and
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suspicious bags were discovered outside an Arby's we found a gun and probably like 10 boxes of bullets the bullets
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were 45 caliber and there was more a blue bag and briefcase Sergeant Jeffrey Mills it instantly hit me these are the
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bags that were in Mr Pond's car the night before kinhin pan was now the prime suspect in Kevin's murder all they had
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to do was find him sounds like it might have been hard em and Green joins us now um so there
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there were several shootings in the area at the night of that shooting were they
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related well this is the thing this is sort of during the pandemic a lot of cities were seeing kind of a spike in
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crime but what investigators believe is that those shootings were part of a very
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elaborate premeditated scheme to make Kevin's murder seemed like it was part of a shooting spree