They checked the home of the woman in the nearby town of Brooklyn Park and found her body.
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Los Angeles chief of police Charlie Beck said the note made them highly suspicious and uneasy.
The “kill list” included the name of his wife Hasti, University of California Los Angeles professor William Klug and another professor at the school, who was not harmed.
Sarkar had targeted Klug on social media and accused him of stealing “intellectual property”, according to Beck.
“UCLA says there is no truth to this”, Beck told reporters in response to a question. The note led the police to his Minnesota home.
Police said Sarkar did not have a known history of mental illness.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Sarkar, a former graduate student at UCLA, believed Klug had stolen his computer code and had given it to someone else.
The LAPD worked with the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Minnesota authorities and served a search warrant at Sarkar’s home, Beck said.
Bruley did not reveal the victim’s name, but a neighbor said a police detective visited about 6:30 a.m. with questions about the home where Hasti’s body was found. They do not know if he committed any other crimes on his way, but that is “something the police chief says they’re investigating”.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Thursday that the deadly shooting at UCLA was a reminder of how endemic gun violence had become in the United States, where readly-available firearms claim around 30,000 lives each year.
When officers got to the Brooklyn Park residence, they found an adult female who was dead from an apparent gunshot wound.
Police have confirmed that a murder-suicide occurred when one man shot and killed another, then turned the gun on himself on the campus of UCLA Wednesday. With the weapons and ammunition Sarkar carried, “he could have caused many more fatalities than the one”, Beck said.
The list named the Minnesota woman and professor William Klug, who was killed in the university shooting.
A University of California Police Officer is seen behind a glass door, as he secures the entrance to the Engineering IV annex at UCLA campus near the scene of a fatal shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Los Angeles.
Klug was a mechanical engineering professor at UCLA.
The grisly discovery came a day after Sarkar, 38, drove his 2003 Nissan Sentra from Minnesota to Los Angeles, entered the UCLA campus and killed Klug, 39, officials said. “Be careful about whom you trust”, he wrote. In a bog believed to have been written by Sarkar in March, he called Klug ” a really sick person”.
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“There was some harsh language but certainly nothing that would be considered homicidal”, Beck said.
