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[Music] [Music] you start dealing with a series of shootings that's a little out of the
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ordinary take me through that the first shooting occurs on December 11th 2020 at Huntington Street
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in New Haven there's a report of five gunshots in the area the residence was struck multiple times the house was
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occupied but nobody was hit when police responded they located multiple 45 caliber shell casings at the scene
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there's a second shooting that occurs January 15th 2021 the third shooting occurred February 5th a fourth incident
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occurred on February 6th it's another residence it was occupied but nobody was hurt
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inside there were five rounds that were shot into was occupied fortunately nobody was hit the residence was struck
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multiple times by gunfire nobody was injured Patrol officers located one 45 caliber located multiple casings 45
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caliber 45 caliber shell casings were located at the scene four shootings over a few months
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do they have anything in common the com down there was the caliber of the gun that was used it's 45 caliber casings
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that were located at all four of those scenes and in the last two shootings there was a description of a dark
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colored SUV our officers concerned that at some point someone is going to get hurt
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yes 8:30 Saturday night residents in the East Rock neighborhood heard the distinct sound of
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gunfire on February 6th at around 8 :0 p.m. we get the report of a person shot at Lawrence and Nicholls Street in New
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Haven that person was later identified as Kevin Jong and was pronounced a ceas on the
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scene we located 845 caliber shell casings there were a few 911 callers and saw a dark colored SUV Fleet the
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area a sense of shock and sadness has settled on the Yale University Community after the Saturday night shooting death
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of grad student Kevin Gian what's up everyone welcome to another episode of fitness with Kevin I'm Kevin it still
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doesn't feel real you know like it still doesn't feel real he's such a cutie he was just very happy person a very
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genuine Soul the victim was a student at Yale's School of the environment originally from Chicago he was an Army
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vet who posted on Facebook just a week ago his joy in getting engaged oh wow he was so in love with
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Zion he was just like oh Zion this and Zion that like everything was about Zion he really loved
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her so you guys walk up to the scene what do you see Kevin's body he was laying on his right side his feet were
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on the stop line here and his head was towards the first line of the crosswalk and then we see the casings there's a
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shell casing by the the bottom of the S and a few feet from the p and then there
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were six more spread out by the first crosswalk line we could see contract wounds to his upper body and to his head
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there were some shots that were at close range there was something personal about
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this yes we'll use Facebook as a tool to try and get a little background on an individual who they're friends with and
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so you're going down the list of names nothing nothing nothing and then you're like whoa there's our connection
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[Music] [Music] it was a cold night in February 2021 when lead detective David zesi and his
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colleague Steven Cunningham arrived at the crime scene the patrol officers had already
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out there cing the area they were knocking on doors looking for anyone that might have seen anything or heard
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anything the crime scene detectives were starting to locate all the shell casings 26-year-old Yale graduate
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student Kevin Jong was lying in the street shot eight times his body was still on scene covered in a white
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sheet when you saw the body what did you see what we could see were contract wounds to his upper body and to his head
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and you can see stippling on the left side of his head stippling is a burn pattern caused by gunpowder exploding
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from a weapon fired at close range about a 100 ft down the street there was a Prius just parked in the
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middle of the road with his hazards on they quickly discovered the Prius belonged to Kevin crime scene detectives
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noticed a peculiar bit of damage that suggested it had been hit from behind there was an impression that was left on
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the back bumper that looked like a license plate holder so this is like a fender mender it's not a violent crash
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no there's not much damage one witness told detectives she heard the sound of an accident and went
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to the window to look when they look out they see a Prius come to a stop and put his hazards on
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they see a dark colored SUV pull up behind it and then reverse back towards the intersection they see the operator of
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the Prius walk out and approach the SUV most likely to see how they were exchange insurance
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information when the operator gets to the black SUV they hear a round of gunshots and they see the muzzle flash
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from the gun from the driver's side of the SUV another witness heard the first round of gunshots and went to her window
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when she looks outside she sees a subject wearing all black standing over another individual who's laying on the
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ground she hears another round of gunshots and she can see the muzzle flash from the gun as he's firing she
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sees someone standing over another person which means the victim is already down
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and they're still shooting yes what did you think there's a little bit more to it it seems a little bit more personal
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when you have a someone that's laying on the ground and and not moving what would
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cause someone to continue firing at them the detectives were able to confirm these accounts when they got a look at
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video from a neighbor's security system it was located on the inside of a window
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facing outward because most of the frame is a reflection of the interior of the house we've zoomed in to focus on what's
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happening on the street a warning this may be difficult to listen to we hear the collision between the two cars and
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then that's when 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 you then hear two gunshots a scream and then six more [Music] gunshots moments later the video shows
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the SUV driving off into the night can you make out any details when it comes to the SUV unfortunately not you could
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kind of get the idea of the potential making model of of it with the tail lights but you couldn't discern any
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identifying features investigators soon felt the dark SUV and the 45 caliber shells recovered at the scene pointed to
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a potential link to those earlier shootings around the area that police had been investigating four times over a
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two-month span someone fired shots into family homes the fourth incident occurred just 1 hour before Kevin jong's
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Mur murder we had detectives in the bureau looking into each of the incidents to see if there's any more of
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a connection to link them two bullets came in through this window and ended up in this wall Paul
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and Nae White's home was the target of the third shooting we had just finished dinner I had a fire going Nae a school
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teacher headed upstairs to take a shower Paul an educator with degrees from Yale
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Harvard and Columbia University was sitting downstairs all a sudden something comes
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through this window then a second bullet came through you heard the pop and the glass going
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everywhere with that one Paul shouted a warning to Nene get down someone's shooting and then I heard bang pop again
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and I turn and I literally saw the frame of the door just splintered and then she
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yells back at you right that that's someone shooting upstairs it was over in a matter of
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moments and no one was injured do you feel lucky yes absolutely absolutely absolutely detectives interviewed the
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whites and the occupants of the other houses there didn't seem to be any connection between them and none of them
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investigators say had any connection to Kevin s but the shell casings from all the
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shootings would later tell a different story when the casings are sent to the lab they all came back as matches to the
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casings found at the homicide the casings matched but Kevin was the only person murdered and
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detectives didn't know why it could have been a road rage incident that turned a little too
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violent or was Kevin Jong Ted the car accident was a deliberate to get him out of the vehicle possibly seemed like it
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was planned and if he was specifically targeted what could have happened in his life to drive someone to do this
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[Music] [Music] it was late when detective zesi and Cunningham left the crime scene on
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February 6th they went to Kevin jong's home looking to find a family member to notify about what had happened his
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mother Lindo came to the door it's got to be the hardest conversation it is they always
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are Hi Mom Happy Birthday you want to be direct and up front and make it clear as
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horrific as it is for them so he explained to her that he was shot and killed in the area of Lawrence and
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nickol Street in New Haven can she even comprehend that she's absolutely devastated she falls to the ground
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crying the detectives wanted to know everything about Kevin and why he may have been targeted that night Linda
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began to tell them about her son it was just the two of them and he was actually
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supporting her she told us that he was a grad student at yell University and was
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in the Army National Guard Kevin was deeply religious he and his mother were part of the congregation at Trinity
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Baptist Church Pastor Gregory Hendrickson knew them both and says that Linda a divorced single parent got Kevin
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through a tough childhood where he was often bullied she was very committed to sort of seeing him come through and
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eventually he thrived on the other side of that I think he had a sense of honoring his mom by as she had cared for
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him when he was a child caring for her as she was getting older Kevin bought this house in 2019 and Hendrickson says
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he invited his mother to come live with him she was living alone she was living on the other side of the country she
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didn't have a lot of family support around her and he wanted her to come and be with him during his studies at
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Yale police also learned that Kevin had recently gotten engaged to his girlfriend of a year Zion
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Perry she posted the proposal on Facebook oh wow this was just one week before he was
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[Music] murdered he was so in love with Zion you could tell he didn't even have to really
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say too much nausea hubard who served with Kevin in the Army National Guard oh my gosh so I remember one time he was on
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the phone with her and I was like wow like you could hear the genuiness and his love towards her and I was like wow
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I hope I find someone like that Zion Perry grew up in Pennsylvania where she was an honors high school student a
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couple met in January of 2020 when Zion was still an undergraduate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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MIT he said you know I met her at Christian retreat and she's 's very kind and we enjoy talking and just have great
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conversations together then she uh came to do her PhD at Yale they clearly shared a lot in common they both Lov
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nature I mean sence a scientist she's studying molecular biophysics and biochemistry so you know he was studying
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the in the school of the environment they're both brilliant and hardworking students and yet they didn't feel like
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their accomplishments were what defined them at the deepest level zesi and Cunningham then
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interviewed an emotional Zion she told them she and Kevin had spent the day together they had gone ice fishing and
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had dinner at her house and then he left her house around 8:30 that night Kevin didn't get far his Prius was
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struck by the dark SUV just two blocks from Zion's House close enough for Zion to hear the
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gunshots that followed she remembers hearing the gunshots but she thought there was a good 5 or 10
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minutes after he' left to when she heard the gunshots so she didn't think he was
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anywhere near the area and didn't think twice about him potentially being involved in anyway did she have any idea
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who would have done something like this at that point I know nothing that she told us that she she could think of
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after speaking with Zion detectives were no closer to figuring out why Kevin would be a Target seemed like just an
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innocent innocent guy did you think this was going to be a tough case though that night yes we had
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a little bit but there wasn't a lot to go on I just had somebody drive through my yard here how you doing but just 15
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hours after the shooting what are you doing back here they got a huge break little did we know that we'd get the
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phone call the next day I just got in here accidentally and I got stuck was like okay
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[Music] wow news of Kevin's murder spread among his loved ones and closest friends I was
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at home and I actually got a phone call from another Soldier and she was saying I know you guys were close and her voice
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cracked and she told me that he had passed away and I was like not comprehending what was going on so I
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text him and I was like answer your phone please and obviously he never answered
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me Lieutenant hubard reached out to Captain Jamila a and of sharing the news about Kevin wasn't tragic enough someone
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posted the chilling video of his murder online and his fellow soldiers now saw saw and heard Kevin's final moments
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alive to this day I can still hear him yeah him screaming mhm yeah I was like why did I listen to
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that detective zoy and Cunningham were back at their desks in headquarters struggling for answers and leads to
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pursue day two you get a phone call yes the call from a Argent and nearby North Haven Police Department was urgent two
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incidents that happened in North Haven the night before and then earlier that morning it began with a 911 call from a
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local scrap metal yard around 900 p.m. less than a half hour after Kevin was killed I'm the uh security guard at uh
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Sims Metal Management I just had somebody drive through my yard here they didn't know where they were going
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so I had been chasing them around the yard and they just pulled way in the back off the property like a black
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minivan SUV type of thing police body cameras were rolling when Sergeant Jeffrey Mills and officer
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Marcus Ares spotted that vehicle stuck on snow covered railroad tracks how doing not far from the rear exit of the
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Sims scrap metal yard they approached the driver stuck what are you doing back here
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though I just got it here accidentally and I got stuck is there any way to get us stuck here uh the only thing I can do
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is call you a tow truck okay cool thanks the motorist was 29-year-old kingin pan
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from Malden Massachusetts okay do you have your driver's license on you yes registration his driver's license and
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criminal background were clean during the encounter Sergeant Mills noticed a yellow jacket on the passenger SE
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he also saw a blue bag and a briefcase in the back seat but not much else he took a wrong turn he got lost and he
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thought the jeep was probably chasing him the security guy because Sergeant Mills hadn't heard about Kevin's murder
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he wasn't particularly concerned so it's nothing you think yeah he's he doesn't look like
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he's trying to scrap anything I mean no I've been on the tracks I don't know how
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many times with vehicles that were you know called into suspicious or whatever but kids go back people always come down
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there according to the security guard and they turn around in the front lot and they leave cuz they missed the
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highway or something did he look nervous he wasn't nervous at all he was perfectly calm so what what do you
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recommend I do I mean if I can get it off the track I prefer to drive drive it myself it was just like oh sorry I got
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stuck on the tracks can you help me get off so how about you get a hotel for the
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night well have the tow truck drop you off the hotel you pay for a credit card and you can arrange pick it up the car
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in the morning okay let's let's get the whole H then yeah let's do that if it is difficult
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that's probably the safest thing to do okay okay the tow truck came uh it took a little work but it got it off the
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tracks he gave uh Mr pan a ride back to Best Western and I cleared the call like
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any other call but hours later there was another call to 911 February 7th around 11:00 a.m. hello
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can I help you it's the police department uh hello I work at r here in North Haven mhm we found a gun um and
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probably like 10 boxes of um bullets an employee found a couple of bags on the grass at the north entrance here when
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they brought them in there were three bags this one that one and this got it took a better look at the bags that it
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came in and here's a blue retail bag with a Massachusetts logo on it and a small leather black Reef case and it
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instantly hit me these are the bags that were in Mr Pond's car the night before the Arby's was right next door to
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the Best Western where pen was dropped off and by then Mills had heard about the murder in New Haven what's going
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through your brain at that point knowing that New Haven had a homicide they were
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looking for a dark colored GMC SUV um now we've got a firearm and then officer bian shows me a yellow jacket that was
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in it and and the suspect was wearing a yellow jacket jacket so he might be best this
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this and when we got here I went in to the front desk and spoke with the attendant there and asked the walks on
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pan it checked in which they checked it and said yes he did and he hasn't checked out yet that's when Mills
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alerted New Haven homicide about pan do you immediately think there might be a connection with the homicide there's a
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very good chance the vehicle matched and the items that were left behind at the Arby's restaurant it included a 45
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caliber handgun power and that matched the casings that were at the scene zesi immediately sent detectives
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to meet Mills at the Best Western uh so we got a key went to room 276 we knocked on the door we entered
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the room the room was clean nothing in it didn't appear that anybody stayed in it for the night at first we were like
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oh we lost them New Haven Police sent investigators including Detective Joe Galvin to track
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down pan Galvin went to Malden Massachusetts where pan lived with his parents and was a graduate student at
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MIT right outside of Boston very aent homes there was no one there when we knocked them a door so day after the
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homicide we were unsure if maybe the family um on vacation out of state out of the
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country but police were also worried were they given the heinous act that occurred in New Haven the day before
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were they potentially kidnapped by their own son were they victims of another hor
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horrible crime [Applause] with kinhin pan and his parents missing from their home detective David zesi
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turned to his computer searching for pan the first thing I want to know is who he is and if there's any connection
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between him and Kevin I see that he has a Facebook page what was his page like there was not
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much activity at all his last uh post was back in 2016 and he had a few photos with some other students but that was it
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is that when you first found out that he's an MIT grad student yes that was the first time we got the connection
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between him and MIT so I check his friends list to see if Kevin is in there is he Kevin is not
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listed but I do notice that Zion Perry is listed Zion Perry Heaven fiance who also went to
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MIT now we have a connection I got in contact with her she explained that they had met at MIT back in
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2019 and they were more Associates than friends nothing romantic no she said that they never dated they never had any
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romantic relationship the last time she spoke with him was May of 2020 he reached out
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to her through Facebook Messenger to congratulate her on graduating he asked to FaceTime with her and she politely
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declined it she must have been wondering why you asking me so many questions about this guy what' you say to her she
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was and that's what I told her that he was a person of interest in this and she was completely shocked he was barely a
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part of her life and why he would have been involved with this in any way what did she have posted on her page
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the last things that she had posted were the engagement between her and Kevin oh
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yes yes definitely wow this is so pretty are you starting to formulate a theory about the
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case that goes a little Beyond possible road rage yes it did seem like there was a secret
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Obsession of pans going on behind the scenes that Kevin wasn't aware of and that Zion wasn't aware
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of the next day Zion Perry joined Kevin's mother Linda L and father Ming Shen Jong and nearly 700 people on a
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virtual vigil for Kevin Zion addressed the mourners one day I will get to see Kevin
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again yeah in heaven and when everything is made right I thank Miss Lou and Mr Jang for raising such a fine young man
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and for yeah bringing him into the world he gave me a lot of Joy he's a very sful woman boy taking care of me
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and uh I miss him he's a nice boy everybody likes him thank you thank you you all
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that week Pastor Hendrickson eulogized Kevin at his funeral we come to you today remembering
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Kevin grateful for his life grieving over his loss Zion read a poem Kevin wrote to her
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it began if this world falls apart it will be all right because we have each other's
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hearts a medical officer also trained trained to operate tanks Kevin was buried with full military honors just 2
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days before his 27th birthday on Valentine's Day meanwhile detective Galvin a member
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of the US Marshall's fugitive task force in Connecticut along with supervisor Matthew Duffy and Deputy Marshall Kevin
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pero were utilizing their vast resources to urgently gather intelligence on pan MIT graduate
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not socially active degree in computer science grad student in artificial intelligence
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lawyer William J very smart genius genius socially not a genius the Marshalls discovered pan had three
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active phones and they noticed that in the months before Kevin was killed pan was using one of those phones to contact
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car dealerships he would tell them all the same thing um he's going for a test drive I believe he said he's going on a
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camping trip investigators were able to match the date of pans test drives with each
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of the 45 caliber shootings in New Haven including Kevin's murder it was all part of a plan
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investigators say they believe that pan likely fired shots into those homes to ultimately mislead them hoping they
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would think Kevin's murder was just another random shooting he planned it and he knew we'd
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be looking at these other things yeah he did his best to yeah to mislead us and now we knew that yes this wasn't a
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random incident out there that he was targeted they also discovered that not long after Kevin's murder pan called his
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parents and they made a cash withdrawal of about $1,000 they had tremendous assets
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somehow from Shanghai access to large sums of money several million dollars the Marshalls zeroed in on Pan's parents
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and picked up a ping on their phone at this North Carolina gas station our task force found it on on the on the ground
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the cell phone was crushed yeah like a car ran over it 3 Days Later investigators caught up with Pan's
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parents driving near Atlanta Georgia Georgia State Police pulled him over he's not in the
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vehicle nope police told them they suspected their son had killed someone were they
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shocked no they weren't shocked that their son was being investigated in connection with a coldblooded murder
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they may have been there but they didn't they didn't lead on to us at all they didn't lead on to us at all the father
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said our son called said he was in Connecticut and needed help he asked us to bring C Ash then once we picked him
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up in Connecticut he took the wheel and then they take this very long drive down
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south F's father didn't say why his son was heading in that direction and he says he's quiet acting weird doesn't
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really say what's going on they make it down to Georgia he pulls over and he gets out of the car and walks away he
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said no words to them just walked away from the car that was their story p parents agreed to be photographed Pan's
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mother declined to answer any questions without an attorney but she later volunteered that her son walked away
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from her and his father and likely killed himself the marshals were skeptical we know after talking to the
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parents that they would go to jail for him knowing the degree that the parents were helping him and his resources his
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intelligence we had to take a different approach on it we needed to focus in on the parents
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because they probably would lead us to him they would go to the ends of the Earth to help support and hide him and
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what does that mean patience and they would need plenty of it weeks went by without an arrest they
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wondered if they missed something and if their murder suspect had outmaneuvered them
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what do you think of Pan's plan to mislead investigators see more of the evidence at 48
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[Music] hours.com 5 weeks passed without a solid lead on the MIT student wanted for Kevin
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jong's murder US Marshals are leading a nationwide manhunt this morning for the and charged in the murder of a Yale grad
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student you give me a real sense of the pressure yeah because this became so high-profile so fast it was it is
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heightened then the man hunt for pan suddenly heated up police said his mom told them she suspected her son killed
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himself but they noticed his parents had a lot of banking activity we start to see large sums of
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cash being withdrawn how much at that time was about 5,000 10,000 that's a large some of money that
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someone could use to get out of the country they still have family in China and then Pan's parents rented a
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car they stopped traveling sou again but the vehicle's GPS system the marshals were tracking went dark did they turn it
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off it was disabled by then investigators said they knew that their son had disabled GPS systems in several
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cars he drove in the runup to Kevin's murder C attack tactics countertactics at one point surveillance cameras at
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this Georgia mall recorded Pan's father purchasing a computer now this is during
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Co so everybody has their masks on we see the father walk in and probably about 10 minutes later we see an
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individual fitting the description of the Sun so the story of the suicide out in the woods that's that's not true so
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from there the parents end up TR back North once they're in Connecticut the GPS comes back on we felt we felt the
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clock was really ticking and it ticked away for nearly two more months until May 4th
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2021 when pans parents drove off for a third time but there was a difference they were traveling with another couple
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what do you think the deal was with the other couple yeah make it appear that it's a regular trip no big deal we're
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just going on a trip to meet some friends we're not here to help our son Pan's parents and their unwitting
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companions were eventually placed under surveillance at a North Carolina hotel where Marshall's interviewed a clerk
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after the pant checked out at one point kin Pan's Mother m came to the clerk's desk late at night and asked to borrow
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his phone here is a picture of Pan's mother making the call that broke the case wide open after she used his phone
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she deleted the number from his phone were you able to find that number yes we were the marshals tracked the phone to
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this Boarding House near Alabama State University in Montgomery see you guys are closing in
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yeah they went out there with a small army around 20 guys they ended up finding his room and they knocked on it
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and he just came out and said I'm who you looking for he had uh approximately $20,000 cash
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on him he had his father's passport father's passport and he had multiple communication devices on him so seven
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SIM cards seven SIM cards and um and a computer pan was arrested for the murder of Kevin Jong and brought back to
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Connecticut he maintained his innocence but a judge ordered him held on a $20 million Bond huge relief his case was
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delayed by the pandemic but investigators had amassed a trove of evidence remember that license plate
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imprint on Kevin's car police say it matched the plate on the bumper of the SUV pan was driving when Kevin was rear
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ended and forensic test revealed that Pan's DNA was on the gun and ammo found outside Arby's and Kevin's blood was
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also on Pan's hat and the gear shift of the SUV pan was driving the night Kevin was murdered
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was there anything missing the murder weapon turns out the gun recovered at the Arby's was not the gun that was used
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to kill Kevin supervisory assistant States Attorney Stacy Miranda who knows where that murder weapon ended up but
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there was so much other evidence that Pan's lawyer William jeras recommended he cut a deal overwhelming
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evidence overwhelming evidence on February 29 2024 3 years after Kevin's killing pan
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pled guilty to his murder in exchange for serving 35 years in prison without parole and had he not been stuck on the
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railroad tracks this still might not be a soft case we might not know who did this bring out pan please at his
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sentencing in April pan sat silently as Kevin's loved ones and Friends described
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their loss by court order the camera was fixed on him some of Kevin's mother's remarks were read by a family
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friend I was dreaming that Kevin will have a few beautiful children after getting married this beautiful and
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joyful dream is destroyed I am left alone by myself I will never see Kevin smile
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again then Kevin's mother decided to speak to charge the motheral p and 35 years in present is too short and too
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light Hanan never explained why he killed Kevin but the only time he looked up was when Zion Perry Rose to
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speak I wanted to address pan specifically although your sentence is far less than you deserve there is also
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Mercy may God have mercy on you and may he have mercy on all of us then pan briefly addressed the
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court your H what I'm thinking about is my action and the horrible consequences I feel sorry for what my
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action is caused and for everyone affected I fully accept my penalties court is going to impose the
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agreed upon sense of 35 years in finally judge Harmon passed sentence and pan was
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led away in handcuffs did you ever consider charging his parents we couldn't charge him
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because we couldn't prove that they knew when they picked him up that he was had
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committed a murder so they might be lucky that they didn't find themselves charged as well
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100% we reached out to Pan's parents for comment but did not hear back now Kevin's friends are left to
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wonder what Kevin a man of deep Faith might have thought about his killer do you think Kevin would have
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forgiven pan yes I do without a doubt yeah the officers visited Kevin's grave after they spoke to 48 Hours Lieutenant
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hubard recalled her first time there when she says she felt Kevin's presence and did something happen is
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this like wind blew you know know did you feel like it was him um I felt like it was definitely
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different as it's like a piece kind of like I want you to carry on don't be don't be sad that I'm
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gone just keep going [Music] CBS next Saturday a mother vanishes Without a Trace she never would have
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left like this do you think D Warner was American yes can it be proved without a
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body you don't get to get away with murder because you're good at disposing of bodies 48 hours is all new CBS next
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