The lone gunman involved in the University of California shootout incident that occurred on Wednesday has been identified as the 38-year-old engineer Mainak Sarkar who is originally from India.
Sarkar was an alumnus of IIT Kharagpur and a former doctoral student of UCLA Professor William Klug, who was shot dead in the incident.
Sarkar had shot Klug inside the University premises before committing suicide with his 9 millimeter pistol.
Reportedly, Sarkar had also killed his ex-girlfriend Ashley Hasti in Minnesota a day before the UCLA shooting.
They had broken up and had stopped being friends on Facebook.
According to his LinkedIn page, Sarkar had earned a master’s degree at Stanford University.
He also has a degree in aerospace engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur from which he passed out in 2002.
After a brief stint as a research assistant at the University of Texas, Sarkar is also known to have worked as a software developer with a IT company in Bengaluru.
Reportedly, Sarkar was upset with his former professor Klug and had even accused him of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else.
Sarkar had repeatedly targeted Klug through his social media posts where he had written "William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor."
"He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy," Sarkar had written on March 10.
The shootout that occurred on campus had led to complete shutdown.
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