Vajinder Toor, Medical Researcher at Yale University, Shot and Killed by Former Colleague Lishan Wang

Vajinder Toor, a postdoctoral clinical fellow at Yale University's School of Medicine, shot and killed by Chinese national Lishan Wang, who is being held on $2 million bond.

Vajinder Toor, 34, a postdoctoral clinical fellow at Yale University's School of Medicine, was shot and killed outside his home in Branford, CT. Monday morning. Lishan Wang, 44, a Chinese national, has been 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. According to Yale Daily News, he is being held on $2 million bond and will be arraigned in New Haven Superior Court on Tuesday. Police theorize that the homicide was not related to Yale and was not a random act. Police Lt. Geoffrey Morgan said the shooting was most likely related to previous job-related disputes Toor was involved in when he worked in New York City, according to the Yale Daily News.

Shortly before 8 a.m., a man shot Toor multiple times in the parking lot outside Toor's condominium and also tried but failed to shoot Toor's wife. The couple has a three-year-old child, and Toor's wife is six months pregnant, according to police. The murder occurred in the Meadows, a quiet Branford condominium complex where violence of any kind, let alone a shooting, is a foreign concept, a resident said.

Neighbors near Toor's condo on Blueberry Lane in Branford heard the shots and immediately called the police, who stopped the shooter near the Meadows condominium complex as the suspect, Wang, was attempting to flee in a van. After seeing firearms in plain sight in the vehicle, police arrested the driver. “I was looking out my window, where I have coffee, yesterday morning when I saw a red van driving around,” Lopa added. Asked if he thought the presence of the van yesterday indicated that Wang had been carefully surveilling the area before the crime, Lopa answered: “Definitely.” Source: Yale Daily News

Toor was reportedly a first-year fellow in the infectious diseases section of the Department of Internal Medicine at the School of Medicine.  According to the department's website, Toor graduated in 2001 from the Guru Govind Singh Medical College in Punjab, India, and from Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York in 2008.