A postdoctoral fellow at Yale University was shot and killed as he left his condominium in Branford, Connecticut this morning (26th April). Vajinder Toor, 34, was gunned down shortly before 8:00 AM EDT today in the parking lot of his housing complex. The gunman, who the linkurl:__New Haven Register__;http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/04/26/news/doc4bd586e9df5ac180416529.txt reports as being a "Chinese national," also tried to shoot Toor's pregnant wife as she rushed to her husband's aid. According to the linkurl:__Yale Daily News__,;http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/university-news/2010/04/26/yale-postdoc-killed-branford-conn-home/ Yale Police Department Chief James Perrotti sent an email to the university community stating that Branford Police had a suspect in custody.The man in custody also may have been a former colleague of Toor's when he worked at Kingsbrook Jewish Medical Center in New York, according to the linkurl:__Washington Post__.;http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/26/AR2010042602466.html Toor, who was a first-year fellow in the infectious diseases section of the Department of Internal Medicine at Yale's School of Medicine, is the second...

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