Ex–UCLA Student Tied to Another Fatality Before Campus Shooting

The man suspected of shooting and killing a UCLA professor Wednesday before turning the gun on himself is also the suspect in another homicide that police believe occurred before the campus shooting, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck said today. Police identified the gunman as former UCLA student Mainak Sarkar. Beck said that Sarkar, who earned a Ph.D. from the school in 2013, was “heavily armed.” Investigators found two semiautomatic guns on him at the scene of the crime. Both were legally purchased. Sarkar had a note on him requesting that whoever found the note check on his cat; it then listed his Minnesota address. Obtained by ABCNews Suspected UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar listed the address of this Minnesota apartment building in a note he was found with after killing himself on June 1, 2016.more + Beck said today that police believe Sarkar drove to Los Angeles in “the last couple of days” before the shooting. When police searched his home, they found a list with the names of three people: two UCLA professors and a Minnesota woman. One of the professors, William Klug, was the shooting victim on Wednesday; the other was off campus and was unharmed. The woman, [...]
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