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Mainak Sarkar has been revealed by the LAPD as the shooter responsible for the murder-suicide yesterday at UCLA. According to police, Mainak killed 39-year-old professor William Scott Klug with a 9mm pistol before turning the gun on himself.
Police claim they found a pistol and suicide note within Professor Klug’s office.
Update–6/2/2016: The LAPD Chief Beck just announced on KTLA that a “kill list” was found within Mainak Sarkar’s home. This list had the name of William Klug, a different professor at UCLA (who is safe), and Ashley Hasti, the ex-girlfriend of Mainak. Read more on that list below.
Who Was Mainak Sarkar?
Mainak Sarkar has been named as the UCLA shooter on Wednesday, responsible for the death of one person.
Mainak was a mechanical engineering graduate student at UCLA. He had a reportedly strained relationship with Professor Klug and at one time used to work for Klug. According to a blog being attributed to Sarkar, Professor Klug had stolen code that Sarkar wrote and gave it to another student.
Sarkar had an extensive educational career.Sarkar first graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, completing a degree in Aerospace Engineering on the year 2000. Then, he would begin to work for Infosys LTd. in Bangalore, India, for a year until 2001. After arriving in the United States, he worked as a research assistant at the University of Texas from 2002 to 2003. In 2005, he graduated from Stanford University with a Masters in Aeronautics and Astronautics. Also in 2005 to 2007, Sarkar worked as a software developer at Lucid Technologies.
During his time at UCLA,Sarkar was a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses in Mechanical Engineering. These courses included Finitie Element Analysis, Statics and Dynamics, and Applied Mathematics.
Sarkar’s motives appear to be due to frustration with his teacher, William Scott Klug, who Sarkar alleged stole his work and gave it to another student. In a blog post on his WordPress Site LongDarkTunnelblog, Sarkar said of Professor William Klug:
William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy…
My name is Mainak Sarkar. I was this guy’s PhD student. We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick.
Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust.
Stay away from this sick guy.
Kill List
When police searched the home of Mainak Sarkar, they found a kill list that contained three different names. One of the names on the list was William Klug, who is now dead. The second name was that of a woman who lived in Minnesota is now known to be Ashley Hasti. Ashley was found dead in her home when police followed up on her name.
The third name was that of another UCLA professor (who is apparently safe).
The LAPD stated that Mainak drove from Los Angeles to Minnesota, where he killed this unknown woman. Police haven’t found the vehicle yet, but the license plate number is Minnesota plate 720KTW.
Some believe that the woman found dead was Mainak’s ex-girlfriend, Ashley Hasti.
Ashley Hasti was the girlfriend of Mainak Sarkar, the UCLA gunman who killed Professor William
Who Was William Klug?
William Scott Klug was an engineering professor at UCLA. According to the Klug Reasearch Group website, “Mainak Sarkar, ME Ph.D.” is listed as one of the people involved in the research group.
William Scott Klug, a Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering professor at UCLA, was murdered by Mainak Sarkar,
William Scott Klug was a UCLA engineering professor, father, and little league coach who was murdered by