Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor Murdered by Lishan Wang Outside Home

by Amy Judd | April 27, 2010 at 12:58 pm
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Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor, a Yale Doctor, Was Murdered by Lishan Wang as He Blamed Him for Being Fired Two Years Ago

Dr. Vajinder Pal Toor was gunned down in front of his Connecticut home on Monday April 26 by a man who blamed Dr. Toor for getting him fired two years ago. Lishan Wang, 44, was an employee at the Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center, but was fired, and then tried to sue saying that the Indian doctors at the hospital including Dr. Toor, discriminated against him because he was Chinese.

Lishan Wang was fired because he went missing for a few hours, and then lied to Dr. Toor, who was the Chief Resident, about where he was. His discrimination claim was dismissed. He claimed that the Indian doctors could do what they want and not get disciplined while the Chinese residents were humiliated in meetings and were not even given sick leave.

On Monday, he approached Dr. Toor outside his house where he was standing with his pregnant wife and shot him multiple times. He tried to shoot Dr. Toor's wife, Parneeta Sidhu, as well but she hid behind the car. 

Lishan Wang then ran away, but was stopped by police a few miles away.

Parneeta Sidhu could do nothing for her husband and father of their three-year-old son and he bled to death.

"I could barely make out the words - it was a woman, she was just screaming," said neighbor Dawn Eisensmith, 42, who saw the gunman flee in an old red minivan and called 911.

Lishan Wang is now being held on a $2 million bond.

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8
as

These chinese people in general are extremely jealous of other's achievement in life. And they always try to find a reason for their failure in others!Bastard destroyed a happy family!

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a chinese

You must be very jealous of Chinese. Chinese is the most hard working in USA. Indian just played politics and take others' credit. Are you one of them?

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whatdoesitmatter

Chinese are very aggressive people  having mental issues they get frustrated when they meet people smarter and more hard working then them,they are good only for massage work and using their massage places for prostitution,they should not be allowed to come to USA.

4
IndianAreBigLiar

LOL! What a big rude liar Indian! Please take you time to keep lying to the world:) I have heard lots of stories about Indian people (play politics, lying to everybody and any minutes). Now I see...

1
ihateracists

and you are a worthless racist

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justiceforall08

you incredible racist pig. they built your goddamn railroads and didnt get jack shit for it. dont try to take your failures out on a people that come here, bust their asses, outwork and out achieve you, seeing as to how a huge population of engineers and medical staff workers are of foreign descent. gtfo with your ignorance

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Gwen Zhang

What kind of people should be allowed to come to USA? How can you say the very aggressive people are Chinese.  What you think about your India people?

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youarewrong

I don't think that you can generalize like that. I don't think the Chinese envy Indians, but they don't like the Indians playing politics and talk more and do less, while Chinese tend to do more and talk less, and with the Indians very good at English thanks to their colonial masters the English, they can talk a lot more and impress the bosses and Chinese tend to be sidelined even with much hard work, that's where the resentment comes from. Respect!

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Joell

It 's dangerous to label a person by his or her nationality. You must be a racist. It's just an individual case, and I heard a lot of this kind of gun shot in US and most of the gun men are white or black people who fail in life and blame other people (you may google it yourself, you will find I'm right).  But I didn't think that white and black peoples are more violence.  Because every country every nation every society have this kind of criminals, if you label people simply by he is Chinese or Japanese or black or white, means you are either an moron or a racist, maybe Hitler is your ancesteor.

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kakawawa

GREAT!!!

23
abc abc

Indian friends are really good at PowerPoint, beyond that, nothing to be proud of.

11
Fact is truth

These india people always try to abuse others epecially these chinese people in general. So even Australian extremely are disgusted with those india who always try to destroy others' life.

1
luvamerica

Chinese Amrican sccientists spy for china and chinese in canada are most hated community,a chinese man beheaded copassenger in the bus,there is something wrong with these people,could  be the insects that they eat,they are good only for prostitution and pimp work.

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IndianLikeToPlayTricks

I deeply feel sorry for you and your parents. Can you exactly tell me why Indian culture is full of tricks, lying, rude, and hating to others??? Why do all Indian people I met lying to me and acted totally different in front of people and behind people? Do you do what you said above behind people?  I believe so...

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JSE

I saw a White American showed boys how to eat an alive insect on PBSKIDS. Chinese never eat like that. We always cooked them very well. Also it is well-known many Americans like to eat bloody beef. BTW, most of Indians have bad smell. What do they eat? Alive and bloody snakes with curry, I think. 

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Gwen Zhang

Holle, be fair to say the right things. It is shame for your words.

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Gwen Zhang

From my experience, I agree. Once those india do not like you, they will never give up, and after you, until put you down. Whatever how good you treat them.

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SRst

I am Indian and I think this guy's comments about Chinese are ridiculous!  Maybe he is Pakistani.  The Chinese on this site should not take his/her comments seriously.

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henry tang

you sound very stupid

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HardLesson

Among all the Indian people I know, some are well educated and very nice but I have to say that quite a lot of them are unbelievably filthy.  I don't think what Dr. Wang did to that Indian guy is correct but let's think about it from a different direction: regardless of race and nationality, who would choice to take such an extreme action if one is not  insulted desperately? I suggest everybody to take this hard lesson more seriously. Never try to push somebody into a corner too much, or you will have to take the consequence yourself. 

5
longmatch

If Dr. Vajinder Toor had treated Dr. Wang a little bit better, he should have already avoid this tragedy. Some indian people are just very bad. Toor might be one of them. If he know the results of his wrong doing, he would behave a much better. A good lesson for other bad Indians.

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wl82

Apparently, if he filed a lawsuit claiming that he was harrassed by Indian doctors- this set him off. I can tell you that working in a hospital,some ofIndian doc's are totally disrespectful and I have seen them lie against other doctors who are not Indian. I would like to what lied about in this guy's case

3
w82

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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JSE

So is Dr.  Mukherji another Hindu? That is why Dr. Wang got fired.

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bekindtoothers

Shame on Dr. Mukherji !!! He has huge responsibility in Toor's death too.  Had he given some advises to Toor on how to respect junior residents, Toor would have not been killed perhaps and Dr. Wang would have been a medical doctor now using his years of education serving patients.  Dr.  Mukherji should be fired by the hospital for failure to be a role model and failure to know how to be an educator.  God, please save America's residents' training system.

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no name

I believe your words. India people like to use power to beat up those they do not like. When things happened, they will always say they will take action. The action is not help people out but put people down. They do not care your future, your family at all.They like to play those games. On the other side, they will promote their people, even if those people did wrong things, they will protect them.- no any actions.I am so familar with their games.

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wl82

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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abc abc

vow, that's humiliating. Dr. Wang was treated as a prisoner in his shift.In america you need have bottom line in terms of respect. If you pass the line, that's what happened.

2
anindian

All chinese massage places are fronts for prostitution all chines in Merica should be deported.

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JSE

So leave you locust-like Hindu in america?  

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