The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/charlie-tan/)
Tan pleaded guilty to the three federal gun charges in a June hearing, two relating to the fact that he tricked his friend Whitney Knickerbocker ’18 into buying a gun for him, and one because he knew the gun would be used in a crime.
Tan was indicted on three federal gun charges in September 2017, and pleaded guilty in June to purchasing the gun used to kill his father in 2015.
Tan was arrested and charged with second-degree murder after his father, Liang “Jim” Tan, was found shot dead in the family home in Pittsford, New York, The Sun previously reported.