Two weeks ago, Jennifer Pan sobbed at her father’s hospital bedside, keeping vigil with her brother as they mourned the murder of their mother in what appeared to be a random home invasion by three hooded gunmen.

On Tuesday, 24-year-old Pan appeared in court charged with first-degree murder, attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.

Police are still searching for three men in the Nov. 8 home invasion on Helen Ave. in Markham.

Bich-Ha Pan, 53, was shot and killed. Her 57-year-old husband, Huei Hann Pan, was shot in the upper body and neck. After speaking to police, he is recovering at an undisclosed location.

At the time, York Region police said Jennifer Pan was tied up and moved upstairs, but was able to free herself and call 911. She was not injured.

Police called it a random attack, though on Tuesday Chief Armand La Barge said investigators had “kept an open mind.”

Pan didn’t have a job and lived at home. With no marketable skills, her prospects for employment were bleak at best.

Her parents supported her and weren’t particularly strict. But still she felt increasing resentment, according to someone familiar with the family.

She did have a boyfriend and her younger brother was enrolled in the engineering program at McMaster University in Hamilton.

At her mother’s funeral Nov. 10, Pan maintained her composure while many of the 100 mourners at Ogden Funeral Chapel in Scarborough cried.

As her father was still in hospital recovering from surgery, the hour-long Buddhist ceremony was conducted by Pan, her 21-year-old brother, Felix, and a Buddhist monk.

She carried incense and poured tea, while Felix held a photograph of their mother who was Buddhist. Their father is Catholic.

Huei Hann Pan was able to give officers a detailed statement when he was moved out of intensive care, police said.

The Pans left Vietnam and came to Canada more than 25 years ago.

Jennifer and Felix were born here and attended St. Barnabas elementary school in Scarborough.

Jennifer attended Mary Ward Catholic Secondary School, also in Scarborough.

Bich-Ha Pan and Huei Hann Pan worked on the shop floor of Magna International until they were laid off recently. He found another job as a tool and die maker, while his wife decided to spend more time at home.

The Pans bought their two-storey, middle-class home in 2004.

At the time of the attack, police said there was no sign of forced entry by the gunmen, who police suspect walked through the front door, stayed for about half an hour and demanded cash.

Immediately after the break-in, police called the crime random.

There was no sign the assailants tried to take the family’s high-end Lexus parked in the driveway.

A grainy black-and-white video from a neighbour’s security camera captured the trio fleeing in a late-model Acura.

At the time, La Barge called Huei Hann Pan “a very lucky man to be alive” and was “in no way, shape or form prepared to be interviewed” by investigators. He also said there was no reason to believe the Pans were targeted.

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Jennifer Pan’s lawyer, Paul Cooper, declined to comment Tuesday.

She was remanded in custody until Nov. 30.

With files from Jayme Poisson