The UCLA gunman’s wife was found dead
in her home in Minnesota hours after her husband shot his former professor in
Los Angeles, then killed himself.
Ashley Hasti, 31-years-old Medical
student, died of a gunshot wound to the head, certainly in the hands of her
husband Mainak Sarkar, including her on his ‘kill list’. Her body was
discovered by the officers inside a property in Brooklyn Park, close to
Minnesota, at around 12:30 in the morning and may have been there for a couple
of days. Multiple sources confirmed that she married Sarkar in 2011.
LAPD revealed that the St. Paul-based
graduate Sarkar, who was born in India before coming to US to study, had been
planning to execute more victims after killing his former professor William
Klug in the UCLA engineering building on Wednesday.
Police said that they found a ‘kill
list’ at Sarkar’s home, also near Minneapolis, which included the names of his
former PhD supervisor Lug and his wife, alongside that of another UCLA
professor who used to teach Sarkar.
Detectives say that Sarkar will likely
to kill that professor too, yet not been able to find him since he was not in
campus.
A source told the LA Times that Sarkar’s
claims were ‘psychotic’, adding that his characterization of Klug as a thief is
‘absolutely untrue.’
As a matter of fact, it was Klug who
helped Sarkar pass the course even though the quality of Sarkar’s work was
often below average.
Sarkar earned his PhD in the summer of
2013, the same year he submitted his dissertation thanking Klug for his help in
putting it together. Sarkar also dedicated it to his late mother, Ira Sarkar.
It was stated in the shooter’s social
media profiles that he obtained his undergraduate degree in aerospace
engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, in Kharagpur, in 2000. The
prestigious institute is known as the MIT of India, also the same institute
where Sundar Pichai, current Google CEO, graduated.
He then worked as a software developer
in Bangalore before moving to America, where he worked as a research assistant
at the University of Texas in Arlington.
It was after that job that he began
studying for his PhD in mechanical engineering at UCLA, working as a teaching
assistant for a few years, and then taking a job at Endurica, a rubber testing
company where he specializes the ‘elastomer fatigue.’
However, an email from Endurica to
Dailymail.com revealed that Sarkar stopped working for the company back in
2014. It is not clear on what his employment status was in the last two years.
According to LA Times, co-workers
praised Klug as both brilliant and kind, a rare blend in the competitive world
of academic research.
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