The Times of India: Delhi doctor at Yale shot dead by Chinese colleague

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Delhi doctor at Yale shot dead by Chinese colleague

TNN, Apr 27, 2010, 08.40pm IST

WASHINGTON: They are among the most prized immigrants in the US academia from two Asian giants that send them in droves to America. For the most part, Indians and Chinese in the US academia and workplace engage in friendly rivalry with a kind of fierce work ethic that Americans envy and fear. For years, I-C in America has come to mean Indians-Chinese as much as Integrated Circuit.

But the gunshots that rang out on a lovely spring morning in Branford, Connecticut, introduced a terrible bloodstain into this equation. At the end of the shooting, Dr Vajinder Toor, 34, a postdoctoral clinical fellow at the Yale School of Medicine, lay dead in the parking lot outside his home even as his pregnant wife cowered nearby.

Police, who were alerted to the shooting by neighbours, detained Dr Lishan Wang, 44, a Chinese national from Beijing who was fleeing the scene in a burgundy-coloured minivan. He is being 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 is being held on a $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 program 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.

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