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| U.C.L.A. Gunman Had ‘Kill List,’ Police Say; New Body Found | |
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| The gunman who killed a U.C.L.A. professor and then took his own life on Wednesday left a list of people he apparently intended to kill, the Los Angeles police chief said on Thursday. A second victim on that list has been found dead in Minnesota. | The gunman who killed a U.C.L.A. professor and then took his own life on Wednesday left a list of people he apparently intended to kill, the Los Angeles police chief said on Thursday. A second victim on that list has been found dead in Minnesota. |
| The chief, Charlie Beck, said that the gunman, Mainak Sarkar, a former graduate student at U.C.L.A., had left a note at the scene where he killed Prof. William S. Klug, asking someone to check on his cat at his home in Minnesota. | The chief, Charlie Beck, said that the gunman, Mainak Sarkar, a former graduate student at U.C.L.A., had left a note at the scene where he killed Prof. William S. Klug, asking someone to check on his cat at his home in Minnesota. |
| Executing a search warrant at that residence, the police found “a note with names on it indicating a kill list,” Chief Beck said in an interview with KTLA, a Los Angeles television station. | Executing a search warrant at that residence, the police found “a note with names on it indicating a kill list,” Chief Beck said in an interview with KTLA, a Los Angeles television station. |
| “Professor Klug was on that list, as was another U.C.L.A. professor, who is all right, and whose name I’m not going to give out at this point, but also the name of a female,” he said. “And so we did a follow-up investigation to that female’s residence in a nearby town in Minnesota and found her deceased by gunshot wound.” | “Professor Klug was on that list, as was another U.C.L.A. professor, who is all right, and whose name I’m not going to give out at this point, but also the name of a female,” he said. “And so we did a follow-up investigation to that female’s residence in a nearby town in Minnesota and found her deceased by gunshot wound.” |
| He declined to identify the woman, or say what connection she had to Mr. Sarkar, but he said there was evidence linking him to the killing. “The connection is very strong,” he said. | He declined to identify the woman, or say what connection she had to Mr. Sarkar, but he said there was evidence linking him to the killing. “The connection is very strong,” he said. |
| Mr. Sarkar, 38, earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from U.C.L.A. in 2013, the university confirmed. On Wednesday, the police say, he went to the fourth-floor office of Professor Klug, 39, in a building called Engineering IV and opened fire. | Mr. Sarkar, 38, earned a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from U.C.L.A. in 2013, the university confirmed. On Wednesday, the police say, he went to the fourth-floor office of Professor Klug, 39, in a building called Engineering IV and opened fire. |
| On March 10, in a blog post that has since been deleted, Mr. Sarkar called the professor “a sick person” who stole his work. | On March 10, in a blog post that has since been deleted, Mr. Sarkar called the professor “a sick person” who stole his work. |
| “I was this guy’s Ph.D. student,” he wrote. “We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick.” | “I was this guy’s Ph.D. student,” he wrote. “We had personal differences. He cleverly stole all my code and gave it another student. He made me really sick.” |
| Asked about a motive, Chief Beck said: “This is some mental issues, mental derangement, but it was tied to a dispute over intellectual property where Sarkar felt that he had had information released by the professor that harmed him. U.C.L.A. says this is absolutely not true, that this is the workings of his imagination.” | Asked about a motive, Chief Beck said: “This is some mental issues, mental derangement, but it was tied to a dispute over intellectual property where Sarkar felt that he had had information released by the professor that harmed him. U.C.L.A. says this is absolutely not true, that this is the workings of his imagination.” |
| Chief Beck said he did not know of any explicit threats Mr. Sarkar had made, in social media or elsewhere. Professors at U.C.L.A. “had some reservations about his conduct,” he said, but “I don’t think they thought he was a deadly threat.” | Chief Beck said he did not know of any explicit threats Mr. Sarkar had made, in social media or elsewhere. Professors at U.C.L.A. “had some reservations about his conduct,” he said, but “I don’t think they thought he was a deadly threat.” |
| Mr. Sarkar was armed on Wednesday with two semiautomatic pistols and multiple magazines, the chief said. “He could have done much more damage with the ordnance he brought to U.C.L.A.,” he said, “so there’s small comfort in that.” | |
| The police asked for the public’s help in finding the car Mr. Sarkar drove from Minnesota to California, which they hoped would yield more evidence. It is a gray 2003 Nissan Sentra with Minnesota license plates 720 KTW. | The police asked for the public’s help in finding the car Mr. Sarkar drove from Minnesota to California, which they hoped would yield more evidence. It is a gray 2003 Nissan Sentra with Minnesota license plates 720 KTW. |