UCLA shooter’s murdered wife was on a kill list that included a second professor
- 8 years ago
LOS ANGELES —A gunman who killed his former university professor left a trail of evidence that led police to a second body on Thursday.
Mainak Sarkar, 38, entered professor William Klug’s fourth-floor office at UCLA’s engineering building on Wednesday armed with two semi-automatic pistols.
Sarkar shot Klug dead before turning the gun on himself, prompting a two-hour lockdown at the school. Responding police officers found a note at the scene left by Sarkar, leading officers to his home in Minnesota and asking someone to “check on his cat.”
Inside Sarkar’s home police found a “kill list” that named Klug, Sarkar’s wife Ashley Hasti — who was later found dead — and a second UCLA professor, who remains alive. The second professor was off campus at the time of the shooting, according to Reuters.
When officers saw Hasti’s name on the list, they went to her address and found her dead inside with an apparent gunshot wound.
Records confirm that Hasti was married to Sarkar in June 2011, but it’s unclear whether the two were still married at the time of her murder.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told CNN affiliate KTLA-TV that a dispute over intellectual property may be tied to the UCLA shooting. Sarkar believed that Klug had stolen computer code from him and given it to someone else, Reuters reported.
Mainak Sarkar, 38, entered professor William Klug’s fourth-floor office at UCLA’s engineering building on Wednesday armed with two semi-automatic pistols.
Sarkar shot Klug dead before turning the gun on himself, prompting a two-hour lockdown at the school. Responding police officers found a note at the scene left by Sarkar, leading officers to his home in Minnesota and asking someone to “check on his cat.”
Inside Sarkar’s home police found a “kill list” that named Klug, Sarkar’s wife Ashley Hasti — who was later found dead — and a second UCLA professor, who remains alive. The second professor was off campus at the time of the shooting, according to Reuters.
When officers saw Hasti’s name on the list, they went to her address and found her dead inside with an apparent gunshot wound.
Records confirm that Hasti was married to Sarkar in June 2011, but it’s unclear whether the two were still married at the time of her murder.
Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told CNN affiliate KTLA-TV that a dispute over intellectual property may be tied to the UCLA shooting. Sarkar believed that Klug had stolen computer code from him and given it to someone else, Reuters reported.