Former mentor UCLA gunman targeted had helped him graduate

Los Angeles Police Chief Beck said Sarkar drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor Klug before killing himself.

Mainak Sarkar, the Indian-American behind the UCLA murder-suicide, seems to have forced his entry into his estranged wife’s home before shooting her dead and boarded a bus to the varsity to kill his former college professor, authorities said on Saturday. There was enough fuel, which meant Sarkar did not have to stop on his trip from Minnesota, where he killed 31-year-old Hasti a few days ago.

When authorities searched Sarkar’s Minnesota home, they found a “kill list” with the names of Klug, another UCLA professor and a woman, Beck said.

The report notes authorities found Hasti at 1:25 a.m. on Thursday, while noting a more accurate date and time of her death can not be determined because it was unwitnessed.

Mr Beck said investigators believe Sarkar killed her earlier in the week before driving to Los Angeles to continue his rampage, armed with two semi-automatic pistols and multiple rounds of ammunition.

In a blog post uploaded on March 10 under his name, Sarkar wrote that the professor “stole all my code and gave it another student”. A second UCLA professor’s name was on that list as well, along with Klug’s.

Police believe officers have found the vehicle of the gunman who fatally shot his estranged wife in Minnesota then drove to Los Angeles to kill a UCLA professor and himself. UCLA is in the midst of its final exams season, and CBS News affiliate KNX cited a law enforcement source who said the shooting may have stemmed from an issue concerning grades. But by noon Wednesday, Beck announced it was an apparent murder-suicide and said a note was found near the bodies, but did not elaborate on what the note contained. The guns were legally purchased in Minnesota, according to the LAPD.

On Sarkar’s LinkedIn page, however, Mars offered a more specific recommendation in a post published August 1, 2014: “Mainak is a steady contributor with solid technical skills in FEA and software development”. He graduated in 2013 with a Ph.D.in engineering. We had personal differences.

A year later, he moved south to the University of California, Los Angeles and began working under Klug.

Klug was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and had been the target of Sarkar’s anger on social media for months.

“He was a nice quiet young man”, Fitzgibbons said.

A page apparently belonging to Sarkar, with no public posts since 2011, prominently displayed several photos of them together.

Sarkar appeared to have had a long-running feud with Klug.

Klug was married with two children, aged 9 and 7.

He attended Stanford University from fall 2003 until spring 2005, when he received a master’s degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering.

“Bill was so much more than my soul mate”, his wife, Mary Elise Klug, said in a statement. Sarkar may have wanted to avoid detection on the cross-country drive and stayed away from gas stations, he said. “I will miss him every day for the rest of my life”.

Sarkar, 38, stormed into one-time adviser Klug’s office on the California campus Wednesday, shooting him dead and putting the campus on lockdown for hours.