Tim Yang was driving with his girlfriend on a highway in Indiana when she received a text message saying a Chinese doctoral student at the University of Chicago, 30-year-old Fan Yiran, was among those killed in a shooting rampage in the city the day before.A PhD student himself at Purdue University, about two hours’ drive from Chicago’s South Side neighbourhood where Fan was gunned down, Yang said he was struck by the randomness of the killing.“I’ve driven past the garage where he was shot,…

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