2016 UCLA shooting

UCLA shooting
LocationEngineering Building IV UCLA, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Coordinates34°04′08″N 118°26′38″W / 34.068828°N 118.443919°W / 34.068828; -118.443919
DateJune 1, 2016 (2016-06-01)
Before 9:49 a.m.[1] (PDT)
Attack type
School shooting, murder-suicide
WeaponsHandgun
Deaths3 total: 2 at the school (including the perpetrator) and 1 other in Minnesota
PerpetratorMainak Sarkar
MotivePersonal 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.

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