UCLA shooting | |
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Location | Engineering Building IV UCLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Coordinates | 34°04′08″N 118°26′38″W / 34.068828°N 118.443919°W |
Date | June 1, 2016 Before 9:49 a.m.[1] (PDT) |
Attack type | School shooting, murder-suicide |
Weapons | Handgun |
Deaths | 3 total: 2 at the school (including the perpetrator) and 1 other in Minnesota |
Perpetrator | Mainak Sarkar |
Motive | Personal grudges, alleged theft of intellectual property |
On June 1, 2016, two men were killed in a murder-suicide at a School of Engineering building on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). The gunman was identified as Mainak Sarkar, an Indian-born 38-year-old former UCLA Ph.D student. The victim was William Scott Klug, a professor who was Sarkar's thesis advisor while Sarkar was a student at UCLA. A woman, later identified as Sarkar's estranged wife, was found dead in Minnesota during the subsequent investigation into the shooting, and is suspected to have been killed by Sarkar several days before the UCLA shooting.