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Chinese doctor who murdered Indian carried 1,000 rounds ammunition

Unemployed doctor Lishan Wang, 44, who is now being held on a $2 million bail was also carrying directions to the homes of two other Brooklyn doctors, he blamed for getting him fired.

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A disgruntled Chinese doctor who gunned down his Indian-American Yale medicine school colleague Vajinder Toor had lain in wait for his prey for over 24 hours and was armed with 1,000 rounds of ammunition, enough for a massacre.

Unemployed doctor Lishan Wang, 44, who is now being held on a $2 million bail was also carrying directions to the homes of two other Brooklyn doctors, he blamed for getting him fired.

The police report said Wang was carrying a Google map of directions to his prey Toor's house and a photo ID of the Indian medic, a former colleague with whom he had clashed at Kingsbrook Jewish Centre in Brooklyn, New York Daily News reported.

Prosecutor Devant Joiner said police had found two loaded handguns on Wang, who also had printouts of two other doctors, who were directly involved in his sacking from the Kingsbrook centre in 2008.

The hospital refused comment, as did the two doctors named in Wang's federal discrimination lawsuit - presumably his other targets. Their names were redacted in the arrest report.

As soon as they found the ominous information on the other doctors in Wang's car, Connecticut cops called the head security at Kingsbrook and asked him to "do a welfare check to make sure they are all okay," the police report says.

Wang's ambush plot appeared to have been complicated and long-planned.

A neighbour told the Daily News he saw Wang, a Chinese national who lives near Atlanta, sitting in his red 1996 Dodge Caravan outside the home in Branford, Conn., where Toor lived with his pregnant wife and 3-year-old son.

"He had his window open. I looked right into his face and he looked into mine. His face was expressionless. It creeped me out," said Kalani Lopa, 56. "He was casing the place. He was stalking that poor family. It's beyond tragic."

Another witness told police that when she saw Wang he appeared to have draped a pink towel over his head.

When Toor, 34, emerged just before 8am Monday to go to work at Yale Medical School, Wang allegedly got out of his van and shot him five times at point blank range, once to the head.

Toor's wife, Parneeta Sidhu, who yelled "what are you doing to my husband" before having to dive behind a car because Wang fired wildly at her, told the Daily News she was having trouble coping with her terrible loss.

"I'm devastated," she said. She finally managed to tell her son that his dad was not coming home, according to a relative.

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