UCLA murder-suicide gunman may have killed Miesota woman

A 38-year-old Miesota man plaed a killing rampage before shooting a professor at UCLA, where he had graduated years before, police said Thursday.

Mainak Sarkar, who 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, mechanical and aerospace engineering professor, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck told the KTLA moing news.

Sarkar shot Klug on the fourth floor of the Engineering IV building and then took his own life a day earlier, Beck said. A semi-automatic gun was found there as well as a note requesting that those who found Sarkar’s body care for his cat back in Miesota.

“We did a thorough investigation of Sarkar’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 the name of a woman was also on the list. She was found dead in Miesota, Beck added.

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Beck said Sarkar drove to Califoia in a 2003 Nissan Sentra. Police are still looking for the car, which has a Miesota license plate of 720-KTW.

Sarkar 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 of what Sarkar’s motivation was but said it had to do with a dispute over intellectual property.

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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.

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