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| UCLA gunman identified: Student killed professor over accusations of stolen code | UCLA gunman identified: Student killed professor over accusations of stolen code |
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| A shooting on the UCLA campus was the work of a disgruntled former engineering PhD student who accused his professor of stealing his code. | |
| Mainak Sarkar fatally shot his professor William Klug inside an engineering building on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday before shooting himself. | Mainak Sarkar fatally shot his professor William Klug inside an engineering building on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday before shooting himself. |
| Klug, 39, was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, and had helped Sarkar with his 2013 doctoral dissertation. | |
| Despite this, Sarkar wrote a since-deleted blog post in which he described his hatred for Klug, calling him a “very sick person” who should not be trusted. | |
| Before enrolling at UCLA, Sarkar earned a master’s degree in aeronautics and astronautics from Stanford University in 2005. | |
| The shooting took place shortly before 10 a.m., and prompted a massive response involving three local police forces and two federal law enforcement agencies. | |
| The UCLA campus was placed on lockdown during the incident, with students and staff being told to shelter in place. Classes were canceled for the day, but campus operations were expected to return to normal on Thursday, except for engineering classes, which were canceled for the rest of the weeks, campus officials said. |