Police identify grad student as UCLA shooter, find possible second victim

Police identify UCLA shooter.
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On Thursday, police identified the shooter in the murder-suicide on UCLA's Westwood campus Wednesday as engineering graduate student Mainak Sarkar. Sarkar reportedly had a tense relationship with engineering and aerospace professor William Klug, 39, who he fatally shot before killing himself.

Police have yet to release any further details on the situation, including the contents of the suicide note left by Sarkar. The incident prompted a campus-wide lockdown Wednesday. Engineering classes are expected to resume Monday.

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