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Friday 3 June 2016

UCLA shooter’s ‘kill list’ had dead Minnesota woman, 2 profsÂ

guage, but certainly noth- tion about using engineer- open their doors Thursday
ing that would be consid- ing to understand the hu- said they didn’t know their
ered homicidal,” he said. man heart, the student neighbor and that police
A blog post written in thanked the professor “for had been there Wednes-
March by someone iden- all his help and support. day night.
tifying himself as Sarkar as- Thank you for being my Colleagues and friends de-
serted that Klug “cleverly mentor.” scribed Klug, 39, as a kind,
stole all my code and gave Authorities believe Sarkar devoted family man and
it (to) another student” and drove to Los Angeles from teacher who coached
“made me really sick.” Minnesota in the past few youth baseball in his ad-
The blog continues: “Your days with two handguns opted hometown of El Se-
enemy is your enemy. But he legally bought in Min- gundo and didn’t appear
your friend can do a lot nesota and with ammuni- to have conflicts with any-
more harm. Be careful tion. Police working to find one. He is survived by his
about whom you trust. Stay that car sought the public’s wife and two children.
away from this sick guy.” help, saying it was a 2003 “Bill was an absolutely
Beck said it was Sarkar who Nissan Sentra with the li- wonderful man, just the
was mentally unstable. The cense plate of 720KTW. nicest guy you would ever
chief cited conversations in With the guns and ammu- want to meet,” said Alan
which UCLA officials told in- nition Sarkar carried, “he Garfinkel, a biology and
vestigators the former PhD could have caused many physiology professor who
student’s claims of stolen more fatalities than the worked with Klug to build a
code are “a making of his one,” Beck said. computer model of a “vir-
own imagination.” At Sarkar’s apartment tual heart” that research-
Sarkar and Klug were once building in St. Paul, the ers could use to test drugs
close. In his 2013 disserta- only people who would without harming anyone.q

This photo shows Mainak Sarkar, who police say carried out a
murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles on
Wednesday, June 1, 2016. Sarkar had a “kill list” with multiple
names that included professor Bill Klug, a woman found dead
in a Minneapolis suburb and another UCLA professor who was
not harmed, Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said.

(Facebook via AP)

AMANDA LEE MYERS body armor and wielding
CHRISTINE ARMARIO high-powered rifles.
Associated Press Students who could
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A for- flee did, and those who
mer UCLA graduate stu- couldn’t leave locked
dent killed a woman in Min- or barricaded classroom
nesota before carrying two doors and huddled in ner-
semi-automatic pistols and vous silence.
a grudge back to the Los The investigation unfolded
Angeles campus, where he rapidly after Sarkar left a
fatally shot a young profes- note in the office where
sor he once called a men- he killed professor Bill Klug.
tor then killed himself, po- It mentioned the second
lice said Thursday. professor on the “kill list”
The attack came after and asked anyone who
Mainak Sarkar, 38, had read it to check on Sarkar’s
composed a “kill list” with cat in St. Paul, Minnesota.
the names of the woman When authorities went
and two UCLA professors, to Sarkar’s apartment,
police Chief Charlie Beck they found the list of
said. Detectives believe planned targets. Authori-
Sarkar also intended to kill ties checked the residence
the second professor but of the woman in a nearby
couldn’t find him Wednes- town and found her body.
day on the bustling cam- Authorities have not pub-
pus, Beck said. licly identified the woman
Authorities pieced togeth- or the unharmed profes-
er the case as most classes sor, who also belonged to
resumed a day after thou- UCLA’s engineering facul-
sands of students and staff ty. Sarkar had disparaged
members were locked Klug online and the profes-
down on the sprawling sor knew of his contempt,
campus. Its normally tran- but police have not uncov-
quil paths and hallways ered any death threats,
were swarmed by a small Beck said. The writings con-
army of officers clad in tained “some harsh lan-