Doctor sentenced for killing Yale physician Bates again elected to chair port authority
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New Haven (AP) — A mentally ill doctor who shot a Yale University physician to death and narrowly missed wounding the victim’s pregnant wife was sentenced Friday to 32 years in prison, ending a seven-year legal drama over the gunman’s sanity that included forcibly medicating him so he could be competent to stand trial.
Lishan Wang, 51, a Chinese citizen from Beijing, agreed to the sentence in June when he pleaded no contest to manslaughter, attempted assault and gun crimes.
Authorities said Wang opened fire at Dr. Vajindeer Toor and his wife, Parneeta Sidhu, outside the couple’s home in Branford in 2010, killing Toor but missing Sidhu. Police said Wang was upset about a workplace dispute with Toor two years earlier at a New York City hospital where they both worked at the time.
Superior Court Judge Patrick Clifford in New Haven handed down the punishment to Wang, calling him a “revengeful and disturbed person” and saying the shooting was a “senseless, cowardly act.”
Wang said that his medical career was destroyed because he was fired — unfairly — from the hospital and that Toor was to blame for the shooting.
After the hearing, Sidhu said the prison sentence should have been longer.
“My loss cannot be replaced,” she said. “I have no ill feelings toward anybody else. You have to be pretty disturbed to do something like this.”
Wang has been under a judge’s order to be forcibly medicated against his will to treat his mental illness so he could remain competent to stand trial.
The Connecticut Port Authority unanimously voted to re-elect Scott Bates of Stonington as chairman of its 15-member board of directors.
“I am proud of the work we have done together, excited about where we are now, and know there is much more to accomplish in the days ahead,” Bates said in a statement. “Job creation and economic growth are what we are all about, and it’s an honor to be part of that mission.”
The port authority, a quasi-public agency established by law in 2014, is responsible for marketing and developing the state’s three deepwater ports in Bridgeport, New Haven and New London, as well as its small to mid-size harbors.
The port authority receives an annual appropriation of $400,000 from the state and also revenues from State Pier in New London. Meanwhile, the port authority is in the process of making $4.5 million in upgrades at the facility.
The authority also approved funding under its Small Harbor Improvement Program, or SHIP, for Nautilus Dock, Mago Point in Waterford and some other local projects. That is pending at state Bond Commission when it meets.
The port authority recently moved its headquarters from Hartford, where it shared office space with the Department of Economic and Community Development, into office space at Saybrook Junction in Old Saybrook.
For more information visit www.ctportauthority.com.