Killing of Bich Pan

Hann was born and educated in Vietnam, moving to Canada in 1979 as a refugee.

Bich also migrated as a refugee.

The couple were married in Toronto and lived in Scarborough.

The investigation revealed that the crime was not a robbery but instead a kill-for-hire orchestrated by the couple's daughter Jennifer Cecilia Pan (born June 17, 1986).

She had expected to inherit her parents' money but was also angered that they had forbidden her to see boyfriend after they had discovered she had been deceiving them about her education.

At trial, Pan was found guilty on multiple charges and sentenced to life imprisonment with the possibility of parole after 25 years, the same penalty as her co-conspirators.

In May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered a retrial for Pan and her conspirators on the first-degree murder charge but upheld the attempted murder conviction.

Two of them were not present during the crime; in their stead were two others who have never been identified publicly.

It is still not clear who actually fired the shots.

Jennifer Pan's mother, Bich Ha Pan (pronounced "Bick"), and father, Huei Hann Pan, were ethnic Chinese refugees from Vietnam (Viet Hoa) to Canada.

Jennifer was born in 1986, and Felix in 1989.

The Pans found work at Magna International, an auto parts manufacturer in Aurora, Ontario.

Hann worked as a tool and die maker, while Bich made car parts.

By 2004, Hann and Bich purchased a house with a two-car garage on a residential street in Markham, a city in the Greater Toronto Area with a large Asian population.

Jennifer's parents set many goals for their children and had extremely high expectations of them.

Jennifer was made to take theory/harmony lessons at the age of 12 from Fernando Baldassini, as well as figure skating classes, where she trained most days during the week.

She had hopes of becoming an Olympic figure skating champion until she tore a ligament in her knee.

Jennifer attended Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School where she played the flute in the school band.

According to her high school friend Karen K. Ho, Hann was seen as "the classic tiger dad," and Bich was "his reluctant accomplice."

The Pans picked Jennifer up when classes ended each day and monitored her extracurricular activities very closely.

They never permitted her to date while attending high school or to attend high school dances, out of fear that these activities would distract her from her academic commitments.

Jennifer was not permitted to attend any parties during the time her parents believed she was attending university.

At the age of 22, "she had never gone to a club, been drunk, visited a friend's cottage or gone on vacation without her family."

Jennifer and her friends reportedly regarded this upbringing as restrictive and greatly oppressive.

Despite her parents' high expectations that Jennifer receive good grades in lower school, her grades throughout high school were somewhat average (in the 70% range) except for music.

By forging report cards, she deceived her parents into thinking she earned straight As.

When Jennifer failed calculus class in grade 12, Ryerson University (now Toronto Metropolitan University) rescinded her early admission.

As she could not bear to be perceived as a failure, she began to lie to those she knew, including her parents, and pretended she was attending university.

Instead, she sat in cafés, taught as a piano instructor and worked in a restaurant to earn money.

In order to maintain the charade, Jennifer told her parents she had won scholarships, later falsely claiming that she had accepted an offer into the pharmacology program at the University of Toronto.

She went to the extent of purchasing second-hand textbooks and watching videos related to pharmacology in order to create notebooks full of purported class notes that she could show her parents.

Jennifer also requested permission from her parents to stay near the campus with a friend throughout the week.

She was actually staying with her boyfriend, Daniel Chi-Kwong Wong, whom she had met in high school.

Wong is of mixed Chinese and Filipino ancestry, and resided in Ajax.

He was an active marijuana dealer and managed a Boston Pizza.

Once a student at Mary Ward, he transferred to Cardinal Carter Academy in North York, Toronto, due to low grades.

While pretending to complete her degree at Ryerson University (now known as Toronto Metropolitan University), Jennifer told her parents that she had started working as a volunteer at The Hospital for Sick Children.

Hann and Bich soon became suspicious when they realized she did not have a hospital ID badge or uniform.

On November 8, 2010, police in Markham, Ontario, Canada, a suburb of Toronto, responded to a report of a robbery and assault at the Unionville home of Hann and Bich Pan, ethnically Chinese Vietnamese immigrants.

Both had been shot repeatedly; Bich died of her injuries and Hann was permanently blinded.