Former Doctor Pleads Guilty To Shooting Colleague In Branford 7 Years Ago

NEW HAVEN, CT - Seven years after he was charged in a fatal shooting, a doctor has plead guilty to killing a former colleague in Branford, the New Haven Register reported. He has subsequently agreed to a 32-year prison sentence.

Dr. Lishan Wang, 51, pleaded nolo contendere Friday to the shooting of Dr. Vajinder Toor outside the victim’s Branford condominium, according to the New Haven Register. Police said the suspect was arrested April 26, 2010, before he could get onto Interstate 95. (To sign up for Branford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

Wang was originally charged with murder, but the state reduced his charge to manslaughter on the grounds that the suspect acted under “extreme emotional disturbance,” the New London Day reported. Wang has said Toor cost him his job at a hospital and damaged his career.

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