There was no immediate evidence to suggest Sarkar commited other crimes between St. Paul, where he lived, and Los Angeles, Beck said.
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Authorities also revealed they believe Sarkar may have entered her residence through a broken window. The woman has been identified as Ashley Hasti, the Daily Beast reports.
Officials would not release the name of the woman, whose body police said they found at a house in the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway in Brooklyn Park near Minneapolis. The LA police believes Sarkar may have been facing problem of depression due to problems he was facing in his life, including adverse relationship with his advisor.
Chief Charlie Beck told the KTLA television station that a victim was found shot to death in Minnesota after authorities found information in notes left by Mainak Sarkar that led them to her. “But your friend can do a lot more harm”, Sarkar wrote in the post. “I will miss him every day for the rest of my life”, Klug’s wife, Mary Elise Klug, said in a statement. Officers found Sarkar’s vehicle, a grey 2003 Nissan Sentra with Minnesota licence plate 720KTW, parked in his old neighbourhood.
On Thursday afternoon he murdered a woman at her home in Minnesota before he drove nearly 2,000 miles to the UCLA and killed his thesis guide William Klug but failed to find the third intended victim.
A former UCLA graduate student killed a woman in Minnesota before carrying two semi-automatic pistols and a grudge back to the Los Angeles campus, where he fatally shot a young professor he once called a mentor then killed himself, police said Thursday.
“I had looked forward to us growing into old grouchy professors together”, Eldredge said. But perhaps, it got all dashed by ego battles between Sarkar and Klug, with the 39-year-old Klug perhaps crushing Sarkar’s ideas and potential, delaying his graduation. Investigators later described Sarkar writing up a “kill list” found at his home in Minnesota which included the names of two professors and a woman who was later found dead in Minnesota.
Klug graduated from Westmont in 1997 with a Bachelor of Science in engineering physics, completed a master’s degree at UCLA and a doctorate at CalTech. “This is a mental issue, mental derangement, but it was tied to a dispute over intellectual property”. The guns were legally purchased by Sarkar and at least one was registered in his name, Beck said.
UCLA resumed classes on Thursday (2 June) for most of the school, except for the engineering department, which will resume classes on 6 June, CBS News reported.
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Los Angeles police have identified the man they say carried out a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus.
