CLA shooter was Mainak Sarkar |
The man who shot William Klug, a professor at the UCLA (University of California-Los Angeles), recently has been identified as 38-year-old Mainak Sarkar. Sarkar was originally from Kolkata. He completed his engineering in aerospace from IIT Kharagpur in 2000.Reports state that a `kill list` was found at his home in Los Angeles where a woman`s name (Ashley Hasti) was mentioned too. The woman was later found dead in Minnesota. It was later confirmed that Sarkar and Hasti had married on June 14, 2011, but the marriage reportedly lasted only a year and they were separated at the time of her death. They lived in separate homes and their social media photos together went back several months.The other professor on the list was OK. He is said to have gotten lucky; he was off-campus that day. Sarkar drove to Los Angeles from Minnesota with two guns and killed Professor Klug before taking his own life. Authorities found a note in which Sarkar had asked those who found his body to take care of his cat left behind in a Minnesota apartment.Sarkar`s dispute with Klug seems to have been over alleged intellectual property theft. He accused the professor of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the Los Angeles Times reported. Sarkar moved to USA in 2001.
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