Police on Thursday released the name of the shooter who carried out a murder-suicide Wednesday morning on UCLA’s Westwood campus, local TV station KNBC reported.
The gunman was Mainak Sarkar, an engineering graduate student at the university, according to LAPD Captain Andrew Neiman. Police said Sarkar fatally shot his professor, 39-year-old William Klug, before killing himself in an office at the university’s Engineering IV building.
Sarkar used a 9mm semi-automatic pistol to kill Klug, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and married father of two, according to CBS.
Police told the network that Sarkar left a suicide note, but they have not made its contents public yet.
KNBC reported that Sarkar apparently had a strained relationship with Klug and “may have believed the professor had misused” his computer code.
The incident prompted a campus-wide lockdown on Wednesday, as teams from the FBI, ATF and LAPD swept the premises looking for any additional shooters or victims.
Classes were expected to resume Thursday at UCLA ahead of final exams next week, but would be postponed until Monday for the engineering department as they grapple with the loss of Sarkar and Klug, according to the Associated Press.
Mainak Sarkar. Great, now we have to institute a ban on over a billion Indians entering the country. Why can’t someone from France pull a stunt like this?
The Good Guy with a Gun was having a Steak and Cheese at a Subway© in Utah because, fuck it, they’re DEMOCRATS.
Since it wasn’t a Muslim, the GOPTrolls response will be “It’s California, nobody cares. Stupid LIBRULZ.”
I saw a couple of reports that he was angry and depressed over a break up with a girlfriend; harbored resentment towards his former professor for the stated reasons; was very paranoid and felt his life was spiraling out of control. It was a lethal cocktail that obviously resulted in his targeting his former teacher.
[Mainak Sarkar was confirmed by law enforcement on June 2nd, 2016 to be the killer of William Klug during the UCLA Shooting. Sarkar used a 9 millimeter pistol to shoot the professor and then himself.
Sarkar wrote a blog article describing his hatred of Klug. The blog article was deleted but Google cached it and it was thus retrievable.
Sarkar had broken up with his girlfriend Ashley Hasti, and they had stopped being friends on Facebook.
Career Dr. Mainak Sarkar works as an engineering analyst at Endurica LLC.
From 2005-2007 he worked as a software developer at Lucid Technologies.
From 2002-2003 he worked as a research assistant a the University of Texas at Arlington. From 2000-2001 He worked for Infosys Ltd. in Bangalore, India.
Education Dr. Mainak Sarkar graduated from UCLA with
a PhD in mechanical engineering in 2013. For his PhD Dr. Sarkar took
courses in Fracture Mechanics, Computational, Solid Mechanics, Finite
element Analysis, Theory of Shells and Plates. While at UCLA
he worked as a teaching assistant for undergraduate courses (Finite
Element Analysis, Statics and Dynamics, Applied Mathematics) in
Mechanical Engineering.
In 2005, he graduated from Stanford University with
a Master of Science in Aeronautics and Astronautics. In 2000 he
graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a
degree in Aerospace Engineering. ]
https://www.everipedia.com/mainak-sarkar/
This from Sarkar’s blog (since deleted).
Professor Klug had, from what I’ve seen online, sterling credentials and a reputation for fairness, hard work and honesty to match. His former student should have moved on to a wonderful and accomplished life; he had the background and the potential. What a horrible tragedy all round.
Nice to see immigrants embracing Real American values and arming themselves. If all immigrants did the same we would have much lower crime rates.