Thaindian News

By Arun Kumar
Washington, April 28 (IANS) The killer of Indian American doctor, Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor, was a highly motivated stalker who drove from Georgia with two loaded handguns and 1,000 rounds of ammunition, enough for a massacre, police said. Lishan Wang, 44, also carried a photograph of Toor and Google Earth directions to Toor’s home in Branford, Connecticut, where Wang allegedly shot him to death Monday, authorities said. One of the guns was cocked and ready to fire when police recovered it.

Wang, a former medical doctor who had the two guns in his jacket pocket, also had about 1,000 rounds of ammunition with him in his minivan when rifle-wielding police stopped him, “The Register Citizen” said citing a police report.

For about a year before Monday’s shooting, Toor was a postdoctoral fellow in infectious diseases, who did work both at Yale-New Haven Hospital and the Yale School of Medicine.

Printouts on two other people, who, like Toor, were involved in Wang’s expulsion from a residency programme at a New York hospital several years ago, were found in Wang’s maroon 1996 Dodge Caravan.

The name of the hospital and the names on the printouts were redacted from the police report. But police previously have said they are looking into whether a confrontation between Wang and Toor when both worked at a Brooklyn hospital might have led to Toor’s death.

Wang and Toor both worked at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, said police Lt. Geoffrey Morgan.

Details of the past clashes are contained in a lawsuit Wang filed against Kingsbrook July 28, 2009, and a response the hospital filed Sep 25, 2009. Wang alleged that doctors - and specifically Indian doctors - discriminated against him because he was Chinese.

Toor had reprimanded Wang a few years ago at Kingsbrook after Wang left his post in the intensive care unit and could not be reached for a few hours, the Register said citing an unnamed hospital employee. Wang in turn threatened Toor in front of other employees.

Wang was Tuesday arraigned at New Haven Superior Court, which ordered him held on $2 million bail and set the next date of hearing on May 11.

(Arun Kumar can be contacted at arun.kumar@ians.in)