Two dead in shooting at UCLA

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A report of a shooting on UCLA Campus, 2 dead and a search for the gunman.

Two dead in shooting at UCLA in possible murder-suicide, campus on lockdown (Video)
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-20160601-snap-story.html

Two men were killed in a possible murder-suicide at UCLA on Wednesday morning, prompting a massive response from local and federal law enforcement, the LAPD and university police confirmed.

UCLA Police Chief James Herren said “it is certainly possible that one of the victims is the shooter.”


The campus was placed on lockdown just after 10 a.m. as police searched for the gunman, according to the university.

Two people were found dead inside a campus engineering building, according to UCLA.

The FBI and the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were responding, the agencies said. The Los Angeles Police Department was placed on citywide tactical alert and sent hundreds of officers to the Westwood campus and surrounding neighborhoods around 10:30 a.m.

The motive for the shooting was not immediately clear, law enforcement officials told The Times. The identities of the victims were not available.

Helicopter news footage showed students walking out in a line with their hands above their heads as armed police officers scoured the campus.

According to the Daily Bruin, the shooter was wearing a black jacket and black pants.

The shooting left students hiding in buildings across campus. Some secured doors with belts or created makeshift barricades to secure themselves in classrooms as word of the gunfire spread across campus.

[...] Nick Terry drove to his architecture class from silver lake expecting to take a final at 11 and give a presentation at noon.

His vision for the day quickly shattered when he arrived on campus after 10 to find there was an active shooting situation on campus.

Terry, 29, said he felt more anger than fear.

"It just seems so pointless," he said of the violence that left at least two dead. Two days left of school and it's gonna end on this note?"


Two dead in UCLA campus shooting, 'active search' for gunman with campus on lockdown (Video)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/shooting-reported-ucla-campus-article-1.2657229

At least two people were fatally shot on UCLA's campus Wednesday, police said, and authorities are searching for the gunman.

Shots rang out before 10 a.m. at the Engineering 4 building in the center of campus.

"Go to a secure location and deny entry (lockdown) now!" the university wrote in the message to students.

Police identified the victims as two men in a statement, but did not say if they were students or campus employees.

 

[Al Today]

I gotta say something about the classroom doors opening out. With a full class of students, and it was time to go... They went, all at the same time. Open the floodgates. Back when those doors were installed, I bet nobody ever dreamt of the craziness going down on the beautiful big blue marble. Yeah right, who'd wanna barricade themselves in? Maybe on some 1950's b-rated Sci-Fi movie is were it might have been seen. Bob Dylan wrote a song titled: " The Times They Are A-Changin' ". No Bob, the times have changed...

 

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Today’s UCLA murder-suicide was the 186th U.S. school shooting since Sandy Hook in 2012
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-live-up-today-s-ucla-murder-suicide-wa-1464811435-htmlstory.html

There have been 186 shootings on school campuses in the U.S. since Dec. 14, 2012, when 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., according to Everytown For Gun Safety, an advocacy group.

By that count, a gun has been fired on school grounds nearly once a week since the Sandy Hook shootings.


L.A. City Council talks violence on day of UCLA shootings
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-lanow-council-gun-violence-20160601-snap-story.html

The UCLA shootings took place on the same day that the Los Angeles City Council was staging an early ceremony for National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

One activist who attended the City Hall event said it was the second time in the last year that council members have interrupted a discussion of gun violence to announce that a shooting had just taken place elsewhere in Southern California.

“The first time it was San Bernardino,” said Laurie Saffian, co-chair of the nonprofit group Women Against Gun Violence. “For this to be the second time that something like this is announced, it’s just really a very sobering thought -- that our country is really suffering from an epidemic of huge proportions.”

National Gun Violence Awareness Day is Thursday.

During Wednesday’s meeting, council members voted to ask for a study on the sources of guns recovered from crimes in Los Angeles.

“Just today, as the City Council voted on my motion to identify how guns make it onto our streets, we got news of another fatal shooting, this one on UCLA’s campus,” said Councilman Paul Krekorian, who proposed the study.

“Though we don’t know all the details about this particular shooting, we do know that many crimes like this are committed by people with guns they shouldn’t have access to, guns sold by a few ‘bad apple’ gun dealers. I want to determine the source of the guns that make it onto our streets so that we can then take appropriate steps to protect the public.”



​UCLA shooting updates: Professor killed in murder-suicide was William S. Klug​
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-live-up-today-s-ucla-murder-suicide-wa-1464811435-htmlstory.html

Two people died in a murder-suicide in an engineering building at UCLA on Wednesday morning, Los Angeles police say. One was William S. Klug, 39, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, according to multiple sources.
• A note was found at the scene though it was not immediately clear if it was connected to the shooting, said the LAPD's chief spokesman, Capt. Andy Neiman.
• There is no continuing threat to UCLA's campus, said LAPD Chief Charlie Beck. The campus lockdown began just after 10 a.m. and was lifted at 12:05 p.m.
• UCLA classes were canceled Wednesday. For the most part, they are expected to resume Thursday, though no engineering classes will be held for the rest of the week.

Several sources identified the victim in the UCLA murder-suicide as William S. Klug, 39, an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering who studied the interaction between mechanics and biology and was the father of two young children.

Klug was described as both brilliant and kind, a rare blend in the competitive world of academic research, colleagues said.

“I am absolutely devastated,” said Alan Garfinkel, a professor of integrative biology and physiology who worked with Klug to develop a computer-generated virtual heart. “You cannot ask for a nicer, gentler, sweeter and more supportive guy than William Klug.”

Melissa Gibbons, one of Klug’s former Ph.D students, said he was an exceptional mentor. She recalled that Klug noticed another student struggling in his finite element modeling class and asked Gibbons to tutor her. “He didn’t want to see her fail. To care that much in an undergraduate class says a lot about his character,” she said.

Klug, an El Segundo resident who was married with two young children, loved surfing and frequently took his family to Los Angeles Dodgers games. He earned his undergraduate degree in engineering physics from Westmont College in 1997, his master’s degree in civil engineering at UCLA in 1999 and his Ph.D in mechanical engineering from Caltech in 2003.

 

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UCLA shooter was identified by the police as Manak Sarkar, local media reported on Thursday.

Police Identify Gunman in Murder-Suicide at University in Los Angeles
http://sputniknews.com/us/20160602/1040678378/us-ucla-murder-shooting.html

Police have identified the shooter in the murder-suicide at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) as Manak Sarkar, local media reported on Thursday.

"The gunman who shot and killed a UCLA professor… has been identified as Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student, the Los Angeles Times reported.

Moreover, the report indicated the murdered professor, 39-year-old William Klug, accused Sarkar of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else.

The University has cancelled all classes on Thursday, and grief counselors are available to staff and students.

 

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LIBERALS SAID UCLA SHOOTER WAS A “WHITE MALE”…THEN THESE PICTURES WERE RELEASED
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Minutes after the shooting, Liberals already went on their anti-gun agenda. They also immediately started railing on the “white man” for another tragedy after initial reports said it was a “white male”.

But their narrative just got a HUGE HIT after this new information was released. This is a tragedy and we are sickened that liberals politicized it just minutes after it happened.

A teacher-student dispute turned deadly when a student killed a professor over a theft allegation. Mainak Sarkar had accused Professor William Klug of stealing code in March 2016.

On June 1, Sarkar took matters a step further when the went to confront Klug in UCLA’s engineering complex and shot him dead. Sarkar then shot himself dead.

The victim was a teacher in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, according to his official bioon UCLA’s website.

Sarkar was first named in a report by CBS News. He had a PhD in solid mechanics from UCLA.

The shooting prompted a two-hour lockdown at the school with LAPD Charlie Beck telling the media when it was over, “The campus is entirely contained. We believe there are no suspects outstanding and no continuing threat to UCLA’s campus.” William Scott Klug was 39 years old. What will liberals say now?

 

[Ca.]

This is the same mouth piece that help stimulate the false narrative of the San Bernardino Incident (Sound Cloud Audio Narrative Interview)

89.3KPCC
June 03, 12:55 AM
UCLA shooting eyewitness: Professor's courageous act may have prevented greater tragedy
http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/06/02/61245/eyewitness-account-ucla-professor-s-courageous-act/

A fast-thinking professor's actions may have prevented yesterday's shooting at UCLA from spilling into an even bigger tragedy.

According to an eyewitness account professor Chris Lynch held the door to professor Klug’s office door shut after hearing two gunshots come from the office.

UCLA professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Ajit Mal witnessed the events and believes Lynch’s actions may have spooked the assailant, Mainak Sarkar, into taking his own life.

Mal was in his office getting ready for class at around 10 a.m. when he said he heard a noise.

"I heard two — what sounded like shots. I came out of my office and my next door neighbor [...] also came out and we started investigating what's going on," Mal said. "And we immediately decided that these were gunshots."

You can hear his full story below:
https://soundcloud.com/kpcc/holding-the-door-to-stop-the-ucla-shooter

When we when we came out, I think a couple of doors open, faculty offices. Immediately my colleague — his name is Chris Lynch. We told everybody to stay inside and lock the door. I also [went] inside and locked the door. Chris started walking around, so I opened the door again and saw that he was checking all the doors. The office where the gunshots took place, he went there. What he told me is that he grabbed the handle of the door to make sure it doesn't open. So that's when all of us heard the third shot.

I suspect [...] that this gentleman [...] shot the first two shots on Bill Klug.

He apparently had probably a mission to get to another faculty member. But because of Chris's being there, he figured he has been discovered or that there are people outside. So he killed himself.

He was not trying to enter the room. He just held the door so that it could not be open. He did a very smart thing.

Mal believes that Lynch’s actions may have prevented Sarkar from killing another faculty member who was named on his kill list.

“That was very courageous of him,” he added.

Mal said he helped recruit and acted as a mentor to professor Klug, who was killed yesterday.

"He was a terrific teacher and students loved his way of running the classes," Mal said. "He got a departmental award for being one of the best teachers. In general he was an excellent teacher."

Mal said he used to attend the same gym as the suspect in yesterday's shooting, but didn't know him personally.

 

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More Situational Control

89.3 KPCC
June 03, 02:11 AM
UCLA murder-suicide suspect linked to Minnesota shooting death
_http://www.scpr.org/news/2016/06/02/61230/police-identify-gunman-in-ucla-murder-suicide/

Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student at UCLA shot and killed his former advisor, UCLA professor Bill Klug. He then took his own life.

Mainak Sarkar, the former doctoral student at UCLA who was responsible for a murder-suicide on campus Wednesday, is suspected in an earlier killing in a Minneapolis suburb, police said.

Sarkar went on to gun down mechanical engineering professor William Klug in an office in UCLA's Engineering IV building before taking his own life, according to police.
Cryptic note leads to discovery of kill list and another victim

A note from Sarkar found at the UCLA office asked for anyone finding it to check on his cat in Minnesota at his residence, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Thursday.

Investigators working with the FBI coordinated a search of Sarkar’s Minnesota home.

“That investigation led them to his residence where they discovered some documents, and basically discovered a list of people Sarkar wanted to harm,” LAPD spokesman Capt. Andrew Neiman told KPCC's Take Two earlier in the day.

Neiman said that the “kill list” specifically mentioned Klug, another UCLA professor and an unnamed woman. The list led police to a residence in a nearby town, where the the body of the woman named on Sarkar’s list was found. She has not yet been identified.

Public records show that Sarkar's wife, Ashley Hasti, lived at 2457 Pearson Parkway in Minneapolis suburb Brooklyn Park. City police told reporters Thursday they'd found Sarkar's victim on the 2400 block of Pearson Parkway.

“The belief based on the evidence is that he committed that murder probably a day or so ago, and then drove out to the L.A. area to carry out his threat against professor Klug,” Neiman said.

The other UCLA professor on Sarkar's list has not been named but is not in any danger, Neiman said.

Sarkar was carrying enough ammunition to have harmed many more people than he did before taking his own life on Wednesday, police said Thursday.

“Certainly he had enough rounds of ammunition on him, and two pistols, he could have caused many more fatalities than one,” Beck said.

Sarkar was armed with two semi-automatic pistols, multiple magazines of ammunition and multiple loose rounds of ammunition.

UCLA professor Ajit Mal said he witnessed a colleague block the door to the office where the shooting occurred just before hearing a third shot from inside.

The LAPD believes the guns were legally purchased, and knows at least one was registered to Sarkar, Beck said.

Officers are currently searching for the whereabouts of a grey Nissan Sentra Sarkar recently used to drive from Minnesota to California, with Minnesota license plate 720 KTW.

Beck said the car could contain valuable information about the case.
Assailant was troubled former UCLA student

Sarkar graduated from UCLA's engineering department in 2013 and officials believe he had been living in Minnesota.

He knew Klug through the UCLA program, Neiman said.

A Mainak Sarkar is listed as a Ph.D. student who has worked with Klug’s research group, which focuses on computational biomechanics at UCLA.
Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student at UCLA shot and killed his former advisor, UCLA professor Bill Klug. He then took his own life.
Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student at UCLA shot and killed his former advisor, UCLA professor Bill Klug. He then took his own life.

It's unclear how long he had been back on UCLA's campus, Beck said. They're hoping the discovery of the Nissan might help them put together a timeline of Sarkar's movements. It appears clear that the former student returned to California with the intention of killing his former adviser.

“We believe, detectives believe, and I support their belief, that he went there to kill to faculty from UCLA,” Beck said.

Beck said social media posts by Sarkar targeted his former advisor with "harsh language," but included no death threats.

Asked about posts apparently made by Sarkar that accuse Klug of stealing Sarkar's intellectual property, Beck said, “There’s nothing factual to this. This was a making of his own imagination.”

It's not clear whether Sarkar had any type of mental health issues, LAPD's Neiman said.

“We’re working very closely with UCLA. We’re very, very saddened by this tragedy,” Neiman said.

Sarkar was married to Hasti, a medical student at the University of Minnesota, on June 14, 2011.

Sarkar was living in the United States legally at the time of his death, according to a statement from Immigration and Customs Enforcement, having been granted lawful permanent residence in May 2014. He originally coming to the U.S. in 2001 on a foreign student visa in order to pursue graduate studies.

Sarkar's LinkedIn page shows he obtained a master's degree at Stanford University after graduating in 2000 from the Indian Institute of Technology at Kharagpur with a degree in aerospace engineering.

He most recently was listed as an engineering analyst at a Findlay, Ohio, company called Endurica. Company president Will Mars said Sarkar left in August 2014, according to the Associated Press.

It's unclear what he had been doing since.

A student vigil is scheduled for Thursday night at 8:30 p.m. on campus in Bruin Plaza, according to the school. A vigil was planned by the engineering school for Friday at 4 p.m.

Classes were canceled Wednesday following the shooting but resumed Thursday, except for the engineering department, which the school's provost said will reopen next week.

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