Jennifer Pan’s 2010 murder plot against her parents devastated her family, particularly brother Felix.
Jennifer and Felix’s parents, father Huei Hann Pan and mother Bich Ha Pan, relocated from Vietnam to Canada in search of a better life. According to Toronto Life, Hann and Bich were strict, pushing their children academically and prohibiting Jennifer from dating until after high school.
Jennifer concealed her on-and-off-again boyfriend, Daniel Wong, from her family, falsified her report cards, and enrolled in a prominent institution in Toronto. Jennifer’s connection with her parents deteriorated once she revealed her secrets. Jennifer, who was 24 at the time, hired three hitmen to murder her parents in 2010. Bich killed in the attack, but Hann survived.
Felix was away from home at the time, studying at McMaster University. He testified at Jennifer’s trial, admitting that he believed her falsehoods until she was caught.
Jennifer was sentenced to two life terms in prison with no chance of parole for 25 years in 2015, one for her mother’s murder and the other for her father’s attempted murder, according to the Toronto Star.
Felix and Hann prepared victim impact statements, which were read on the day she was sentenced. They also secured restraining orders against Jennifer, which ban her from contacting them.
Find out where Jennifer Pan’s brother, Felix, is now.
What happened to Jennifer and Felix Pan’s parents?
After uncovering their daughter’s falsehoods, Hann and Bich began monitoring her communications and emails and refused to allow her to visit Wong, with whom she had been covertly staying.
Jennifer and Wong began planning a murder in 2010. On November 8, 2010, three armed men entered Jennifer’s family house, demanded money, took her parents to the basement, and shot them, according to Toronto Life. Hahn was shot in the shoulder and face, but survived with significant injuries, but Bich was shot in the head three times and murdered immediately.
Jennifer and her co-conspirators, Wong, Lenford Crawford, and David Mylvaganam, were sentenced to two life sentences in 2015 for the murder and attempted murder of Bich and Hann, according to the Toronto Star.
Jennifer and the three men filed an appeal, and in May 2023, the Court of Appeal for Ontario ordered new trials for their first-degree murder charges, according to CTV News. Prosecutors challenged the order in August 2023, and the cases are still pending additional decisions, according to Vox.
Who is Felix Pan?
Felix is Jennifer’s younger brother. He was born in Canada in 1989 and spent his childhood in Markham, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, alongside his sister, who was born in 1986.
Felix’s parents were just as strict with him as they had been with Jennifer. Hann and Bich expected their children to work hard, according to Toronto Life. Felix attended a private school and was expected to perform well academically.
According to his LinkedIn profile, he earned a degree in engineering from McMaster University in 2012.
Where was Felix Pan at the time of his sister’s murder attempt?
Felix was gone at school and not at home when Jennifer’s murder plot occurred.
He was unaware of his sister’s falsehoods until after she was charged with his parents’ murder and attempted murder, according to the Toronto Sun.
Did Felix testify at his sister’s trial?
Jennifer’s trial began on March 19, 2014, in Newmarket, Ontario and lasted ten months.
Felix took the stand at his sister’s trial. According to the Toronto Star, a lawyer obscured Felix’s view of his sister during his testimony, and he became emotional while discussing his mother’s funeral arrangements.
When the defense lawyer, Laurence Cohen, questioned if he loved and respected his sister and if she duped the family into believing she was in college, he said yes to both. Felix also mentioned that his father was harsh and conventional.
“Dad was old-school… “He was very controlling,” Felix stated on the stand, according to the Toronto Sun. “That’s just how my father is… It’s kind of like rough love.”
Felix also mentioned that he and Jennifer had distinct relationships with their mother.
“We had a closer attachment to our mom,” he told me. “I could talk to her about things.”
Felix and Hann both prepared victim impact statements for Jennifer, which were read in court when she was punished in 2015. Though he did not appear in court that day, Felix’s statement stated that his sister’s crime followed him, with employers discovering information about it when searching his name on the internet, according to the Toronto Sun.
“Like a dark shadow, this is something that I can not hide from,” he stated. “I lost my mother.”
Hann stated that Felix was silent and distant, refusing to speak to him.
“My son doesn’t want to hear his sister’s name,” Hann told the Toronto Sun. “I hope someday, my daughter can become a good and honest person.”
Is Felix in contact with his sister?
After Jennifer was jailed in 2015, Felix and his father sought restraining orders against her. She was forbidden to contact either of them again.
Felix has not spoken to the press in the years following his sister’s trial.
Where is Felix Pan today?
According to Toronto Life, Felix relocated to the East Coast in 2015 to work for a private technology company. The move was intended to distance himself from his family, but he appears to have returned to the Toronto area or is working for Ontario-based organizations, according to his LinkedIn profile.
His first work after college was as a mechanical engineer in the Canadian province of New Brunswick, according to LinkedIn. He later joined Equifax Canada in Toronto and has been working as an application developer for Allstate Canada in Markham, where he grew up, since 2020.
