Killer had accused NRI doctor of racism
WASHINGTON: Vajinder Toor, a Yale
University doctor, was on Monday shot dead outside his home by a former
colleague Lishan Wang, a Chinese national. Wang is being held on $2
million bond
and will be arraigned in New Haven Superior Court on
Tuesday.
Authorities suggested the shooting may have been related to
spats Dr Wang reportedly had with Dr Toor when they both worked in 2008
at
Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in Brooklyn, a large acute-care
hospital.
Like Toor, Wang was a member of Kingsbrook's medical
residency training programme starting in July 2006. But he was
terminated two
years later. In a federal lawsuit filed soon after, Wang claimed that
the
medical staff at the center, including Dr Toor, singled out Chinese
residents
and humiliated them verbally. The two reportedly had heated exchanges
after Toor
accused Wang of being delinquent in his duties and ignoring pages and
calls from
the hospital staff.
"An hour after this heated discussion, Dr
Vajinder then accused Dr Wang of threatening his safety by using hostile
body
language, although he did not summon security to assist him," wire
services
quoted Wang's lawsuit as stating. It is one of the several allegations
of anger
and behavioral problems that Wang acknowledges he was cited for while in
the
programme.
Toor, 34, was a first-year fellow in the infectious
diseases section of the Department of Internal Medicine at the School of
Medicine. His wife, who was also shot at by Wang, reportedly escaped
unhurt.
Source:- The Times of India
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