UCLA student Mainak Sarkar is gunman in campus murder-suicide

Mainak Sarkar, who had graduated from UCLA in 2013, had created a “kill list,” packed his car with weapons and headed out to Califoia from Miesota, to kill William S. Klug, a 39-year-old mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck told KTLA moing news. Sartar shot Klug on the fourth floor of the Engineering IV building and then took his own life, Beck said. A semi-automatic gun was found there as well as a note telling those who found him to care for his cat back in Miesota.

“We did a thorough investigation of Sartar’s residence in Miesota and found extra ammunition,” Beck said. “A note named individuals. It was a kill list, and Professor Klug’s name was on that list and another professor.”

Beck said he won’t release the professor’s name, but also said the name of a woman was also on the list. She was found dead in Miesota, Beck added.

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Sartar had also graduated from Stanford University. He was a current member of the Klug Research Group in Computational Biomechanics at UCLA, according to a Klug Research Group publication.

Beck said he was uncertain what Sartar’s motivation was but said it had to do with a dispute over intellectual property.

Klug of El Segundo, was a father of two and associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering.

The UCLA campus reopened today, with the university offering counseling to students and faculty distressed by Wednesday’s shooting.