--- title: Jennifer Pan: Crushing Pressure Led to Killing Parents, Friend Says description: Jennifer Pan received two life sentences for the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father canonical: https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/ author: NBC News article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-07-28T18:50:24.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T09:40:15.052Z article:section: U.S. og:title: Overwhelming Pressure Drove Daughter to Slaughter Parents, Friend Says og:description: Jennifer Pan received two life sentences for the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father og:url: https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Overwhelming Pressure Drove Daughter to Slaughter Parents, Friend Says twitter:description: Jennifer Pan received two life sentences for the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Pressure Drove Daughter to Slaughter Parents, Friend Says by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 28, 2015 6:50 PM CUT by [NBC News](/author/nbc-news/) ## NBC News Jul 28, 2015 6:50 PM CUT In January of this year, a 28-year-old Ontario woman, Jennifer Pan, along with her accomplices, received [two life sentences](http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2015/01/23/convicted-mother-killer-jennifer-pan-hears-sentence.html "undefined") for the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father in a staged home invasion robbery in 2010\. However, it is the story written by one of her high school classmates, Karen K. Ho, for [Toronto Life](http://www.torontolife.com/informer/features/2015/07/22/jennifer-pan-revenge/ "undefined") last week exploring the back story of how Pan got to that point that has Asian Americans and Asian Canadians talking about the horrific case again, in the context of high expectations from immigrant parents and the pressures of the model minority myth… [Read the rest of the story from our partners at NBC News](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/pressure-rebellion-revealed-daughters-plot-kill-parents-n399651?cid=par-time-article%5F20150728 "undefined") ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/"},"headline":"Pressure Drove Daughter to Slaughter Parents, Friend Says","datePublished":"2015-07-28T18:50:24.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T09:40:15.052Z","description":"Jennifer Pan received two life sentences for the murder of her mother and attempted murder of her father","url":"https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/","keywords":["Murder","Crime","Family","Canada","Toronto","Immigrants"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"NBC News","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/nbc-news/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3975492/jennifer-pan-parents-murder-reason/","name":"Pressure Drove Daughter to Slaughter Parents, Friend Says"}}]}] ```