Yiran Fan

Death by Force

Yiran Fan, a 30-year-old Ph.D. student from Beijing, China, was tragically shot and killed on January 9, 2021, in Chicago, Illinois. Fan was a fourth-year doctoral student in a joint program of the Booth School of Business and the Kenneth C. Griffin Department of Economics at the University of Chicago. He was highly regarded by his peers and professors for his exceptional intellect, dedication, and kindness. Fan had come to the University of Chicago in 2014 to study financial mathematics and lat ...Read More

Chicago Sun-Times: He died in shooting spree, but professors made sure he still got his Ph.D.

chicagotribune.com: Chicago to Evanston shootings: Customer, 20, and clerk, 81, didn’t see gunman coming. ‘It’s just blatant disregard for human life,’ says relative after shooting rampage.

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