Chinese doctor charged with murdering Indian in Chicago says 'sorry'

A disgruntled Chinese doctor, arrested for murdering Indian-American Yale University physician Vajinder Toor, says he is "sorry" for what has happened and feels that "I may kill myself", prompting police to place him on a "suicide watch".

In his statement to the Branford police department, Lishan Wang, 44, admitted being outside Toor's home on April 26 when the Indian-American doctor was shot dead and that he "did have a conversation with the victim".

Wang also confirmed that he was sorry for what happened," investigating officer detective Daniel Travisano wrote in a supplemental report released by Branford police.

During the interrogation, Wang told the police that while working as a "physician in training" at the Kingsbrook Jewish
Medicine Centre in Brooklyn in 2008, he was accused of threatening Toor, 34, who was then the chief resident doctor.

Toor had reprimanded him for "not promptly returning to the ICU after being paged" by him and Wang had threatened him "using a pen and poking him in the eye".

After an investigation, Wang was subsequently fired from the Centre.

Wang informed the police that he was currently unemployed and his last employer was Morehouse School of Medicine, where he did research.

He further said he had not seen Toor, who was doing research at Yale University, after being fired from the Centre, nor had he gone to "the victim's residence".

When asked how he knew where Toor lived, Wang said he had searched the internet, hospitals and had "googled" to find out Toor's address.

Prior to the day when he shot Toor, Wang said he had not met him. On the day Toor was shot, Wang waited in his car and did "not try to get into the house".

He said he did not know what time he arrived as he did not have a watch. He told police that he was outside Toor's condominium in The Meadows complex "briefly" — from two to 10 minutes — but did not know "why he wanted to see" him.

He also did not know if Toor knew he was there — and when asked where the victim was before he was shot, "Wang 0indicated that he was both outside of the car and he (victim) was not far from his car," Travisano wrote in the report.

"I may kill myself," said Wang, who is 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 was arraigned last week in Superior Court in New Haven and is being held in lieu of $2 million bail.     

He has been placed on a "suicide watch". He "also made a reference to having a gun in a bag".

Wang also allegedly shot at Toor's pregnant wife, Parneeta Sidhu, but missed as she ducked behind a car.

A Chinese national, Wang had three guns and about 1,000 rounds of ammunition in the van — including two fully loaded semi-automatic handgun magazines in a coat pocket, four lottery tickets and a gas station receipt.

Authorities said Wang also had printouts on two other New York doctors he once worked with at Kingsbrook and who were directly involved in the incident that led to his firing.

During the interrogation, Wang requested that an "attorney be arranged for him and his children".

Earlier, while still outside the Toor residence, Wang had requested that his head be covered "so that his children would not see him," Travisano wrote.

Throughout the interview — which took place in English - Wang called Toor "Vanjander."

He said he did not know how to spell the name and said he did not know if "Vanjander" was the man's first or last name,
the report says.

During the course of the interview, Wang, who came to US in 1995 and is a "legal permanent resident", also told the officers that his wife had cancer.

Wang's wife Lan Ma has expressed her condolences to Toor's family saying she is in "shock and despair about this tragedy".

Ma said in a statement that she wants to protect her children and hopes that God can help "overcome this hardship".