Doc gets 32 yrs for killing PIO Yale physician

New Haven, Connecticut, Sept. 23: 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 sevenyear 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, Ms 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.”