Chinese doctor charged with murdering Toor says `sorry`

Yoshita Singh
Chicago, May 2 (PTI) A disgruntled Chinese doctor,
arrested for murdering Indian-American Yale University
physician Vajinder Toor, says he is "sorry" for what has
happened and feels that "I may kill myself", prompting police
to place him on a "suicide watch".
In his statement to the Branford police department,
44-year-old Lishan Wang admitted being outside Toor's home on
April 26 when the Indian-American doctor was shot dead and
that he "did have a conversation with the victim".
"Wang also confirmed that he was sorry for what
happened," Investigating Officer Detective Daniel Travisano
wrote in a supplemental report released by Branford police.
During the interrogation, Wang told the police that while
working as a "physician in training" at the Kingsbrook Jewish
Medicine Centre in Brooklyn in 2008, he was accused of
threatening Toor, 34, who was then the chief resident doctor.
Toor had reprimanded him for "not promptly returning to
the ICU after being paged" by him and Wang had threatened him
"using a pen and poking him in the eye".
After an investigation, Wang was subsequently fired from
the Centre.
Wang informed the police that he was currently unemployed
and his last employer was Morehouse School of Medicine, where
he did research.
He further said he had not seen Toor, who was doing
research at Yale University, after being fired from the
Centre, nor had he gone to "the victim's residence".
When asked how he knew where Toor lived, Wang said he had
searched the internet, hospitals and had "googled" to find out
Toor's address.
Prior to the day when he shot Toor, Wang said he had not
met him. On the day Toor was shot, Wang waited in his car and
did "not try to get into the house".
He said he did not know what time he arrived as he did
not have a watch. He told police that he was outside Toor's
condominium in The Meadows complex "briefly" — from two to 10
minutes — but did not know "why he wanted to see" him.
He also did not know if Toor knew he was there — and when
asked where the victim was before he was shot, "Mr Wang
indicated that he was both outside of the car and he (victim)
was not far from his car," Travisano wrote in the report.
"I may kill myself," said Wang, who is charged with
murder, criminal attempt to commit murder, carrying weapons in
a motor vehicle, carrying a handgun without a permit and
unlawful discharge of a firearm.
He was arraigned last week in Superior Court in New Haven
and is being held in lieu of USD 2 million bail.
He has been placed on a "suicide watch". He "also made a
reference to having a gun in a bag". (More) PTI