The former UCLA doctoral student reportedly had a “kill list” at his home in Minnesota, which included the names of two UCLA professors, and that of a woman who has been found dead in Brooklyn Park, north of Minneapolis.
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Johnson said the 31-year-old Hasti was a year away from finishing medical school at the University of Minnesota and hoped to work with children.
Sarkar was an alumnus of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur.
After a brief stint as a research assistant at the University of Texas, Sarkar is also known to have worked as a software developer with a IT company in Bengaluru.
Wednesday’s shooting was carried out by Mainak Sarkar. In a now-deleted blog post on March 10, he alleged that Klug stole his computer code and gave it to another student.
Police in Minnesota discovered Hasti’s dead body on Thursday, the day after Sarkar killed Professor William S. Klug.
He shot Klug multiple times in a small office in UCLA Engineering Building 4 before taking his own life. He arrived on campus heavily armed, with two semiautomatic pistols along with multiple magazines and rounds of ammunition in a backpack, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.
Sarkar, 38, lived in Minnesota and kept a “kill list” at his home, police said.
The woman, identified as Ashley Hasti, was found “deceased of an apparent gunshot wound” at her residence, the report added while citing police sources.
Klug, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, specialized in biomechanics, including the workings of the human heart, according to UCLA’s website.
Los Angeles police officers walk by the Mathematical Sciences Building after a fatal shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles. Police said the campus attack was “contained” to the student and professor.
“That made me uneasy about what we would find when we got to Minnesota”, he said. Investigators did not reveal whether other names were on the list besides those of Krug and Hasti.
Mr. Beck said Sarkar’s dispute with Klug was tied to his thinking that the professor released intellectual property that harmed him. “Thank you for being my mentor”, he wrote.
Meanwhile, the police said they were having difficulties in identifying the body of Hasti, the wife of Sarkar.
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“Bill was so much more than my soul mate”, Klug’s wife, Mary Elise Klug, said in a statement.
