Press Trust of India
Los Angeles, June 3: Mainak Sarkar, the Indian-American gunman who shot dead his former college professor in California before turning the gun on himself, drove over 3,200 km to kill his mentor after murdering his wife and had another faculty member on his hit list, police said. Sarkar, 38, killed his wife Ashley Hasti at her Minnesota home, before driving to the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) to shoot his former professor William Klug. The former doctoral student left a list at his home in Minnesota that included the names of the woman, UCLA professor Klug and a second professor who is safe, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.
Sarkar shot Klug multiple times in a small office in the Engineering Building of the UCLA Wednesday before taking his own life, authorities said. Hasti was found dead of a gunshot wound at her home in the small Minnesota town of Brooklyn Park. Hennepin County Vital Records confirmed that Hasti was married to Sarkar June 14, 2011. It was unclear if they remained married at the time of the shooting, the Los Angeles Times reported. Beck said Sarkar had plans to kill another UCLA faculty member, but could not do so as he was not able to find him. The faculty member, whose name was not revealed by police, is safe.