Sources from California have stated that a disgruntled Mainak Sarkar, Indian doctoral student who had been working on his thesis for 10 years, has been identified as the killer of his professor at the University of California-Los Angeles on Thursday. Mainak Sarkar, 38, who was born in India before coming to the US for higher studies, shot dead engineering professor William Klug, 39, in his office on the university campus.
Klug was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and had been the target of Sarkar’s anger on social media for months. On March 10, Sarkar called the professor a “very sick person” who should not be trusted. Alan Garfinkel, professor of integrative biology and physiology who has worked with Klug has stated that he was absolutely devastated.
Around 200 armed police, SWAT officers, FBI agents and firefighters were called to the campus as at least three shots rang out, fired inside the Engineering IV building around 10 a.m. on Wednesday and the bodies of both men alongside a 9mm semi-automatic pistol were later found.
