California gunman had 'kill list'

His vehicle was spotted in Denver a day before the UCLA killing.

Sarkar later fatally shot engineering professor William Klug, 39, in his office at the UCLA on Wednesday.

He said Sarkar was convinced Klug had stolen his computer code and given it to someone else, and seemed bent on revenge.

A relative says a Minnesota woman who was killed by her estranged husband before he fatally shot a UCLA professor was a world traveler and close to becoming a doctor.

"They just didn't get along", Johnson told the paper.

She said Hasti was going to medical school at the University of Minnesota. "The only enemy she had was him, I guess". Authorities did not identify the second professor.

The official was not authorized to publicly discuss the case and spoke on condition of anonymity. This is an indescribable loss. "Knowing that so many others share our family's sorrow has provided a measure of comfort". The university was shut down for the day but reopened on Thursday and a vigil was planned later in the evening to honor Klug. With the weapons and ammunition Sarkar carried, "he could have caused many more fatalities than the one", Beck said. There police discovered the "kill list" and tracked down Hasti's body.

A Los Angeles police media relations representative said she had no information about the warrant.

Johnson said Hasti met Mainak Sarkar while she was studying at Scripps College in Claremont, California, in 2009 and 2010, when he was a student at UCLA. He said his neighbors were quiet and kept to themselves.

Officials in Hennepin County, in the midwestern state of Minnesota, said Hasti and Sarkar were married on June 14, 2011. It was unclear if the couple were still married at the time of their deaths.

The 2013 dissertation by Mainak Sarkar includes two lines about professor William Klug. "Thank you for being my mentor".

"I had looked forward to us growing into old grouchy professors together", Eldredge said.

The dissertation, approved by Klug and four colleagues, is dedicated to Sarkar's dead mother, Ira Sarkar.

Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday that Hasti's name was on a "kill list" composed by Sarkar. Sarkar killed himself after killing Klug.

A suspicious package was found near the location, and the St. Paul police bomb squad responded to "render it safe", Linders said. Beck said the woman named on the list was the victim; and a neighbor told AP that Hasti lived in the home with her father.

At the residence, investigators found a so-called kill list with the names of two professors and a woman living in Brooklyn Park outside St. Paul.

Sarkar killed engineering professor Bill Klug and then killed himself. She also dabbled in stand-up comedy. Sarkar branded him a "sick man".

A blog post written in March by someone identifying himself as Sarkar asserted that Klug "cleverly stole all my code and gave it (to) another student" and "made me really sick".

It ends with: "Your enemy is your enemy. But your friend can do a lot more harm", Sarkar wrote in the post.

A local Federal Bureau of Investigation spokesman referred a Pioneer Press reporter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Los Angeles or Los Angeles police.

Beck says the woman was found shot dead in her home in a nearby Minnesota town. Police say they had no previous calls concerning Hasti or Sarkar.

A police spokeswoman, Officer Jenny Houser, says the gunman was Mainak Sarkar.