Man Charged With Murdering Branford Doctor Declares Innocence to Victim's Family

Dr. Lishan Wang, the man charged with murdering Dr. Vajinder Toor outside his Branford condominium has written a letter to Toor’s family declaring his innocence, the New Haven Register reports.

In October, Toor’s younger brother, Tajinder Toor sent a letter on behalf of his family to Superior Court Judge Patrick J. Clifford saying the family had been waiting too long for justice.

Wang, 48, shot Toor, 34, outside his home in April 2010 and attempted to shoot his wife, who was pregnant at the time.

Wang, who has insisted on representing himself, has been under arrest since the day of the crime and has been held in lieu of $900,000 bail. According to the paper, the legal proceedings have been delayed due to Wang’s many motions and the question of who would pay for the experts Wang would need for his trial.

In the letter, Wang stated to the Toor family that he had been working hard to uncover all the facts in both a civil and criminal case, the paper reports. In the civil suit, Wang claims he was unfairly fired from his job at a New York Hospital in 2008 by officials including Toor. Wang said in the letter he was in the same boat as Toor’s family when it came to the delays in the criminal case and that he was innocent.

A State Supreme Court decision earlier this year allowed Wang the right to use public defender funding to hire experts and an investigator for his upcoming trial, meaning the trial could possibly happen next Spring.

The case will be transferred to Superior Court Judge Thomas V. O’Keefe Jr., who will preside over the trial.

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