This undated photo shows Ashley Hasti, left, and Mainak Sarkar, who police say carried out a murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
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Inside the home, they found extra ammunition and a box for one of two pistols found at UCLA, as well as the three- name “kill list”, that included the names of Klug, another UCLA professor and Ashley Hasti, he said. She could do anything she dreamed of whether it was studying overseas in four different countries, acting in school plays, trying stand up comedy and improv, and becoming a doctor.
The Los Angeles Times quote a source who was close to Klug as saying the professor had gone out of his way to help Sarkar finish his dissertation and to graduate, even though his work was subpar.
UCLA’s commencement ceremonies and end-of-year events will now include mourning Klug, who was a devout Christian and a regular figure in organizing campus spiritual life. He shot himself dead after the killing, police said.
A auto found near Los Angeles on Friday belonged to a former graduate student who shot dead his estranged wife at her Minnesota home before driving halfway across the country and killing a professor and himself at the University of California, Los Angeles, a police spokeswoman said.
“Professor Klug’s name was on that list, as was another UCLA professor who was alright”, Beck told the station.
“We believe that Sarkar came to the Los Angeles area very recently, within the last couple of days”, said Beck.
The investigation unfolded rapidly based on a note Sarkar left in the office where he killed Klug.
“Because this was an unwitnessed death, a more accurate date and time of death can not be determined”, the statement said.
The police said that “a dispute over intellectual property” was tied to the UCLA shooting, which put the campus on lockdown for hours. Her body was found in her St. Paul home after cops at UCLA found a note from Sarkar asking them to “check on my cat” and giving his Minnesota address.
Brooklyn Park deputy police chief Mark Bruley told reporters that the woman was killed before the UCLA shooting.
All university classes were cancelled on Wednesday. Authorities did not identify the second professor.
Neighbors on the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway described the Hasti family as friendly but quiet people who kept to themselves.
Sarkar had apparently driven 3,220 km from Minnesota to Los Angeles in his vehicle to shoot Klug.
“That made me uneasy about what we would find when we got to Minnesota”, he said.
Colleagues said only a deranged person could conclude someone of Klug’s character would defraud a student.
Police found gasoline cans in the auto, which did not appear nefarious, along with a handgun, according to Capt. William P. Hayes.
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The shooting triggered a huge police response until authorities determined there was no continuing threat.
