"Kill list" was the title of a note found at the Minnesota home of Mainak Sarkar, the UCLA shooter, spelling out the names of three people Sarkar wanted to target.
One of them was William. S Klug, the UCLA professor who has been identified as his former doctoral teacher whom Sarkar had accused of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else.
A woman found dead on Thursday in a suburb of Minneapolis is believed to be Sarkar’s wife Ashley Hasti. Hasti was also on Sarkar’s kill list.
“A woman's name, apparently Hasti, also was on the list. She had a gunshot wound and had apparently been killed before the UCLA shooting,” Deputy Police Chief Mark Bruley told reporters.
Mainak Sarkar, an alumnus of IIT-Kharagpur, shot and killed professor Klug in a small office in University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) before killing himself on Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times reported, citing sources.
The shooting prompted a complete lockdown of the campus and deployment of hundreds of police officers as well as federal agents.
Klug, 39, was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and had been the target of Mainak Sarkar's anger on social media for months, the paper said.
"William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy," Mainak Sarkar wrote on March 10.
"He made me really sick. Your enemy is my enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm. Be careful about whom you trust," he wrote.
In his doctoral dissertation, submitted in 2013, Mainak Sarkar had expressed gratitude to Klug for his help and support, the paper said. "Thank you for being my mentor," he wrote.
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Before enrolling at UCLA, Mainak Sarkar earned a master's degree at Stanford University, according to his LinkedIn page.
In 2000, he graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur with a degree in Aerospace Engineering.
