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

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.

Update 12:47 p.m: A woman on alleged gunman Mainak Sarkar's "kill list" has been found dead of an apparent gunshot wound in Sarkar's home state of Minnesota, Los Angeles' police chief said Thursday. The discovery of Sarkar's list prompted police to do a welfare check on the woman. Her identity has yet to be released. Police say the connection between the woman's death and the Wednesday murder-suicide on UCLA's campus is "very strong."

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