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Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor Murder: Lishan Wang Appears in Court
Lishan Wang Appeared in Court and is Charged With the Murder of Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor
Lishan Wang hung his head as he appeared in court and listened to his charge of murder for the killing of Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor on Monday April 26 and the charge of attempted murder for Dr. Toor's wife.
Dr. Toor, a Yale doctor, was on his way to work and was outside his Connecticut home when Lishan Wang fired multiple times, hitting and killing the doctor. He then tried to kill his wife. According to CNN, when Wang was picked up just a few miles away, he was carrying handguns, about 1,000 rounds of ammunition and a wig. Printouts were also found in his car of Dr. Toor and the names of two other people who may have been target's of Wangs as well.
Why Did Lishan Wang Kill Dr. Toor?
Lishan Wang had held a two year grudge against Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor after he was fired from Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York.
The Brooklyn hospital fired Wang in 2008 after a confrontation with Toor, according to a police report and civil court records. Wang then sued the medical center, alleging discrimination against him.
Wang claimed that the other doctors harassed him and humiliated him whenever they could because he is Chinese. He was also angry that the Human Resources department called him 'mentally impaired and suffering from anger issues' and he had already been flagged as being unable to control his anger.
He also claimed that Dr. Toor, who was chief resident at the time, said that Wang was not doing his job properly and ignoring calls and pages from doctors. As the two got in to a discussion, Dr. Toor claims that Wang 'threatened his safety by using hostile body language'.
Wang was suspended without pay pending an investigation. He said in his court papers that the hospital would fire him if he did not seek "disability leave for mental impairment." Wang said he refused to "feign impairment for the sake of saving his job."
Lishan Wang has not yet entered a plea in the case, but police are treating this as a revenge case and are holding Wang on a $2 million bail.



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hihi (not verified)at 13:33 on April 30th, 2010
As Dr. Wang's PGY-2 year progressed, he contined to experience unfair discriminatory treatment and retaliation for his complaints about this treatment. In a further act of discrimination and retaliation, Dr. Vajinder unfairly targeted Dr. Wang on May 15, 2008, by accusing him ignoring pages and calls from hospital staff while on duty. Dr. Vajlinder told Dr. Wang that he had been looking for him for several hours in the afternoon, was unable to find him and that the nurses and other residents were unable to find him earlier that morning. Dr. Wang attempted to defend himself against Dr. Vajinder's accusations by explaining that he had been working at the intensive care unit (ICU) and the emergency room that morning, had answered pages regarding consults and renewed orders for ICU patients that afternoon in an effort to show that he was easily accessible throughout the entire day.
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hihi (not verified)at 13:33 on April 30th, 2010
Dr. Valinder pressed issue, and engaged in a heated discussion with Dr. Wang after walking him from the emergency room towards the ICU and stopping in front of the security station in the hospital lobby. An hour after this heated disuccsion, Dr. Vajinder then accused Dr. Wang of threatening his safety by using hostile body language although he did not summon security to assist him. Dr. Vajinder also alterted Dr. Mukherji, the ICU director, who, without engaging in any discussion about the matter with Dr. Wang, declared, "we will take action (against Dr. Wang)." Dr. Wang was ordered to remain in a small room in ICU next to the nursing station for the rest of his shift and had to ask Dr. Mukherji of he could go home when his shift ended at 9:00pm that evening.
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RobertRobert (not verified)at 21:54 on April 30th, 2010
It is the notorious Caste system to blame. The ones who have not come out from the darkness of the system habitually treat lower positioned people as subhumans. They treat people this way without any reason only because they are of higher Caste. They know at least they need reason to treat people like this here in America. They pick on you. If they cannot find your fault, they create your fault! Also, they need to kick Chinese out of the game first so to expand their living space.
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shanno (not verified)at 06:47 on May 1st, 2010
What ever happened, it seems that this Indian guy invented lies against this chinese doc. Personally, this happens all the time with Indian people. The Inspector General for the VA had to investigate the head of medical imaging at the VISN 12, an Indian doc, because of his one of many gross medical errors then he fabricated false allegations against the doc that informed to have her fired. Real crazy. Read of yourself: www4.va.gov/oig/54/reports/VAOIG-09-01348-49.pdf
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Normal Guy (not verified)at 07:05 on May 1st, 2010
To Shanno and Robertrobert This is not about Indian or Chinese. To your comments: Caste system: This victim is a sikh they dont believe in the caste system I am sorry you have not had the opportunity to meet some really nice Indian people. But don't worry there everywhere you go. They account for 1/5 of the population of the world. So whatever you poor judgement or jealously is I know if you keep a open mind you will find a nice indian soon.
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Kicking Indian ass is my passion (not verified)at 15:57 on May 1st, 2010
WANG IS DA MAN!! Let's all get together and kick some more stinky curry nigga ass and send them all packing back to slumdog India, where they belong and deserve to be.
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annonymous nurse (not verified)at 16:14 on May 3rd, 2010
I would first like to remind the people commenting on this page that this is a human life that was lost. There are thousands of family and friends grieving his death. No matter the what the motivation of Dr. Wangs actions were murder does not slove the problem. Now there is a pregnant wife and 3 year old son with out a father. I personally worked with Dr. Toor in Round Rock, Texas and thought that he was an excellent doctor who had alot of compassion for his patient's, colleagues, friends, and family. Your opinions are yours to voice. I just ask that you take into consideration that many of us are still grieving the loss of a talented phycisian.
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Everybody is sick of Indians (not verified)at 16:51 on May 3rd, 2010
Everybody is sick of Indians.
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Wasirak (not verified)at 18:59 on May 2nd, 2010
Wang is the weaker in this tragedy. Toor had used jungle rule abused wang, pushed wang to dead corner without any impact to himself. While wang just used jungle rule agaist Toor with his whole life either in prison or in Asylum. So he is still the weaker. I show more sympath to wang than to poor. He derved it when he pushed others to the dead corner.
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HateIndianphysicians (not verified)at 20:09 on May 6th, 2010
I personally sufferred a severe discriminations at residency program from a senior resident(but younger than me) who was an Indian guy and I also sufferred abuse from two Indian attending physicians. I don't find any Merit from Indian doctors who I worked with. I could not continue working in the program and had to resign from the program. I know exactly what Dr. wang felt. I believe that even he does not kill Toor, his mind and heart will not be peaceful for the rest of his life. Toor deserves some form of penalty if not death. From the story , I can picture the Indian doctors who I worked with. Yes, Toor has children, but Dr. wang has children too. Dr. wang's children need fiancial support from his father. But Dr. wang's career was just simply ruined by Toor . Imagine how many years of training is the medical training. Toor simply ruined other's career. I hate Toor, even I did not directly work with him. I left that resideny program because I felt that it is an inhuman place to be, specially with Indian doctors who only care about them. Yes, there are some nice Indian people, but in the doctor field, there are just very few. Sorry to say that, but it is up to Indian doctors to give a good image to convert many people's perception.
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pain (not verified)at 07:30 on May 30th, 2010
All you dirty people who are engaged in dirty politics of Chinese and Indians are actually people who have done nothing in your life but just dirty commentary without knowing the truth. U all failures with ample time. Dr Toor was then a supervisor and had very right to question this fucker why he went missing for hours when patients needed his attention in ICU/Emergency. May all you or your loved ones run into serious accidents and have to report to ICU/Emergency. Then you all fuckers will look for Dr like Dr Toor and not a fucker like Wang who got missing for hours and made stories thereafter that he was around. FYI, his stories were proved wrong by hospital cameras and he was fired later for not performing on multiple occasions by hospital HR (comprising whites) and not by Dr Toor/Mukherjee. Dr Toor was very courageous and did his duty with utmost sincerity. He covered this fucker for good 6-8 hours when this fucker was missing. He might have benefited some patients atleast when this fucker was not around. Why did he cover this fucker. He shouldn’t have. Then he would still be alive and this fucker would have automatically got fired. Whosoever, doctors/nurses/staff, worked with Dr Toor has always praised him for being an excellent Doctor. No complaints whatsoever. And Wang, fucker, had some many complaints from doctors (including whites) , staff (including whites/blacks). Wang, fucker, proved that he is mentally impaired by killing this nice person and firing at a pregnant woman (who has done nothing). He couldn’t even pity a 3 year old. He destroyed lives of so many. His own children, wife, and relatives and also Dr Toor’s. What has he got now. Instead this self absorbed psycho should have struggled to emerge as winner. In this world people are losing limbs, lives, loved ones etc etc but still they fight. This fucker was totally mentally impaired. Dr Toor’s only fault was to cross paths with this psycho. I salute you Dr Toor for saving some lives that day when this fucker was missing for hours and many more that this fucker could have killed by being negligent in his duties. You, Dr Toor, did your duty honestly and you were not timid but brave. You worked hard through out your life. And by the way you always praised Chinese. I can still remember saying this to me on many occasions. I have never heard a racist remark from you. Never ever. You have so many other Chinese/Russian/pakistani friends.
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another guy (not verified)at 21:41 on June 7th, 2010
It appears Wang wasn't a very hard working doctor, at the same time he likely encountered some unfair treatment that lead him to file a law suit against the hospital...Chinese and Indians work in a lot of the same lucrative fields - IT, medical, etc. Both are smart, competitive, driven and very goal oriented... let's respect, understand and forgive each other a bit more, try to bring out the best of people, it's a tregedy that could have been avoided.
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Indians are screwing up the West (not verified)at 17:19 on June 14th, 2010
Indians are trouble makers and create problems in any society they settle in.