The attack appeared to be provoked by Sarkar’s belief that Klug had stolen computer code from him, according to a March blog post by a person with the same name of Sarkar.
Advertisement
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said on Thursday that the deadly shooting at UCLA was a reminder of how endemic gun violence had become in the United States, where readily-available firearms claim around 30,000 lives each year.
There, a former student with a grudge, Mainak Sarkar, killed his estranged wife. Los Angeles police chief says shooting at UCLA was.
According to CNN, Hasti and Sarkar got married 14 June, 2011, but it is not clear whether they were still married at the time of their deaths.
Hasti’s grandmother, Jean Johnson, said the two remained together for only about a year, but didn’t get a divorce because Hasti couldn’t afford one. “The only enemy she had was him, I guess”. “The list has been described as a ‘kill list.’ That was the wording that was put on it”. The authorities, however, did not publicly identify the unharmed professor or the woman.
Klug says she is grateful for the outpouring of support from UCLA and elsewhere for what she calls an indescribable loss.
She asks that her family’s privacy be respected so they can mourn.
A campus vigil for Klug will be held later Thursday night.
The Daily Beast reported the local cops said that Hasti could have been dead for a couple of days, while Daily Mail reported that Hasti, who was a medical student, was found with a gunshot to the head. Beck said the woman named on the list was the victim; and a neighbor told AP that Hasti lived in the home with her father.
Police would not disclose the woman’s name.
According to CBS Minneapolis, they were married in 2011.
The 2013 dissertation by Mainak Sarkar includes two lines about professor William Klug. “Thank you for being my mentor”.
Sarkar, 38, and Klug, 39, once were close. It’s titled, “Coupled Cardiac Electrophysiology and Contraction using Finite Element”.
The investigation unfolded rapidly based on a note Sarkar left in the office where he killed Klug.
The second professor is reported to be safe but no details were offered by the police about the dead woman – her identity, her nationality or when she was killed and where.
The police also gave no other information about Sarkar. A third person on his “kill list”, another UCLA Professor, is said to have gotten lucky; he was off-campus that day. This undated photo provided by the University of California, Los Angeles shows Bill Klug, a professor of mechanical engineering.
The law enforcement official said Hasti was the name of the woman on Sarkar’s list.
It ends with: “Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm”, Sarkar wrote in the post. “Be careful about whom you trust”, he added. With the weapons and ammunition Sarkar carried, “he could have caused many more fatalities than the one”, Beck said.
A local Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman referred a Pioneer Press reporter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles or Los Angeles police. Sarkar drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Klug before killing himself, Beck said. The other professor on the list is all right. “This is a mental issue, mental derangement, but it was tied to a dispute over intellectual property”.
Police are asking the public’s help to find the auto Sarkar drove to Los Angeles, a 2003 Nissan Sentra with the license plate of 720KTW.
Mainak Sarkar’s life appears to have been a mess.
Advertisement
Classes are resuming Thursday except for the engineering department, which will reopen next week.
