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Police investigating if road rage led to Yale student’s shooting death

Police investigators are looking into whether a Yale graduate student shot to death over the weekend in Connecticut was a targeted victim in a road rage incident that possibly occurred after a car accident, New Haven police said Monday.

Kevin Jiang, 26, a student of Yale’s School of the Environment, a Seattle native and an Army veteran, was shot multiple times and found lying outside his car on a New Haven street just after 7:30 p.m. Saturday. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The killing was part of increasing gun violence in the city that is worrying local officials and residents.