Murder Cut Short Romance Nurtured In Nature

On what would be the newly engaged couple’s last day together before a brutal murder, Zion Perry and Kevin Jiang went ice fishing, caught a pickerel, and cooked dinner at her East Rock apartment.

For Perry, that Saturday—spent marveling at the wonders of the outdoors, sharing in each other’s faith-filled company—embodied so much of what she loved about her late fiancé.

Jiang, a 26-year-old Yale School of the Environment graduate student, was shot multiple times and killed at the end of the day, around 8:30 p.m., near Perry’s apartment, on Lawrence Street between Nash and Nicoll in the Goatville section of the East Rock neighborhood.

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