Doctor’s murder in US shocks Mohali

Toor (34),an infectious disease specialist,was doing his fellowship at the Yale-New Haven Hospital.

According to news reports from Branford,he was allegedly shot dead by his former colleague,Lishan Wang (44),a Chinese national,when he was leaving his house for work. He was in the front lawn when Wang allegedly opened fire at him.

Hearing gunshots,his pregnant wife Parneeta rushed outside. Seeing her husband lying on the ground and Wang with a gun,she reportedly screamed: “What are you doing.” Wang then opened fired at her but she escaped unhurt.

Parneeta told the family about the murder on Tuesday evening.

Toor’s father Sohan Singh Toor (59),an audit officer with the Haryana Accountant General,has flown to the US. His younger brother Tejinder and mother Parsanjit Kaur will leave on Thursday.

Tejinder told Newsline that Toor lived with his wife and three-year-old son Angad. At present,Parneeta is 14 weeks pregnant.

“We haven’t decided where to perform the last rites but my mother and I are leaving for Brandford,” said Tejinder,who works with IBM in Pune.

Toor did his MBBS from Baba Farid University of Health Sciences,Faridkot,in 2001. In 2002,he was recruited as a medical officer by the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Around five years ago,he migrated to the US.

“Vajinder was a very intelligent person. He was quite helpful and familiar with the entire neighbourhood,” said area councillor Mohanbeer Singh Shergill.

Phase-X Residents’ Welfare Association president Daljit Singh said,“It is an irreparable loss not only to the family but the entire area.”

Accused had worked with the victim

The Branford police have reportedly arrested Wang who had a history of confrontations with Toor and his other colleagues,which provoked him to allegedly commit the murder.

Wang worked with Toor in the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Centre in Brooklyn,New York,in 2008. Both were members of the Kingsbrook’s medical residency training programme,which started in 2006. But Wang was terminated two years later.

Later,in a federal lawsuit,Wang claimed that the medical staff at the center,including Toor,singled out Chinese nationals and humiliated them. The two reportedly had verbal spats after Toor reportedly said Wang was delinquent in his duties.