Former student charged with murder

A former JMU student has been arraigned in the murder of his mother in Great Falls.

Jayant Kadian, 20, who dropped out of JMU in November, is in the custody of Fairfax County Police after he was found Friday morning in the parking deck at JMU.

He was brought before the Fairfax County Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court Monday and a preliminary hearing was set for May 2.

Fairfax County Police had been trying to find Kadian for questioning in the murder of his mother, Kiran Kadian, 52. She had been stabbed to death and was found by her husband in their home on March 24.

On the day of the murder, Jayant Kadian and his parents were scheduled to meet with a therapist. When Kadian and his mother did not show up for the appointment, his father went home where he found his wife’s body.

In the past, Kadian had been charged with possession of marijuana by campus police and petty larceny in Fairfax County.

Kadian was found by JMU police asleep in his car. He was arrested for "visual possession" because there was a bag of marijuana in view in his car, JMU spokesman Andy Perrine said.

U.S. Marshal G. Wayne Pike said the local authorities took Kadian into custody until he was turned over to the Fairfax County Police Friday afternoon.

Pike said there was "evidence in the car implementing him," and a forensics team would most likely investigate the car.