Highly qualified Indian shooter had a ‘kill list’

California

Sarkar, 38, had intended to kill a second professor besides shooting engineering professor William Klug, 39, at a small office on the campus, police said. He shot himself dead after the killing, police said. Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck told reporters on Thursday that a search of Sarkar’s St.  Paul, Minnesota, home turned up a “kill list” that included the name of the woman found dead nearby, Klug - who was Sarkar’s professor at UCLA - and the name of another professor at the school, who was not harmed.Officials would not release the name of the woman, whose body police said they found at a house in the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway in Brooklyn Park near Minneapolis. A marriage license application  lists a residence on that block as the home of Ashley Erin Hasti and Sarkar, who married in Minnesota in 2011.  

The attack on Klug appeared to be provoked by Sarkar’s belief that his former professor had stolen computer code from him, according to a March blog post that appeared to be written by Sarkar, Beck said. “Your enemy is my enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm,” Beck said, “UCLA says there is no truth to this”. “This was a making of his own imagination.”