The shooter who allegedly killed a UCLA professor Wednesday before turning the gun on himself had a "kill list" that included the name of a woman found dead today in Minnesota, Los Angeles Police Department Chief Charlie Beck told a local news station today.
Police identified the gunman as Mainak Sarkar. They say he shot and killed UCLA engineering professor William Klug on campus Wednesday, prompting a lockdown.
Sarkar had a list of names on him when he was found, including Klug and at least one other professor and a woman, Beck told KTLA-TV in Los Angeles today.
The second professor has not been identified but he is fine, Beck said. The woman, however, has since been found dead in Minnesota. Her name has not been released.
Brooklyn Park police in Minnesota said today that they were notified by LAPD and asked to go check on someone related to the UCLA shooting.
"Upon arrival, officers located one adult female deceased from an apparent gunshot wound. Early indications are the shooting occurred prior to the UCLA event," the Brooklyn Park police said in a statement.
Beck said investigators have since found two notes apparently written by the suspect. One was with him at the scene in Los Angeles, directing someone to check on his cat in Minnesota. From there, police say they found a second letter in Minnesota, and no details about that have been released.
In connection to the slaying of Klug, investigators are focusing on Sarkar’s grades and what’s being described as a longer-standing poor relationship between the two men. The LAPD said it believes Klug was the shooter's teacher.
Beck said today that Sarkar's dispute may be connected to a fight over intellectual property, which UCLA has denied.
Investigators worked through the night to understand what happened and why.
The shooting occurred Wednesday morning in one of the engineering buildings on the Los Angeles campus. The school was put on lockdown.
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