UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar was heavily armed and planned to kill another professor, said Los Angeles Police Chief Charlie Beck on June 2, a day after the murder-suicide.
Sarkar shot and killed mechanical engineering professor William Klug in an office before turning the gun on himself.
Sarkar, 38, was a former doctoral student at UCLA and had graduated in 2013.
The shooting led to a lockdown at the UCLA campus with a huge police response until authorities determined there was no continuing threat.
Beck said the shooter was heavily armed and had on him two semi-automatic pistols and multiple magazines of ammunition.
The LAPD says it is known yet whether Sarkar specifically went to UCLA to target only the professors, or if he planned a mass murder at the university.
However, Beck says that based on the weapons Sarkar had on him he “could’ve caused many more fatalities.”
Sarkar also had a note on him that said, “Please check on my cat.”
Officials went to Sarkar’s home in Minnesota, the state where he had been living for years. In the residence they found a “kill list” which included Klug, another professor, and a woman.
Police went to go check on the woman but found her dead, Beck said. The motive for the murder of the woman is not yet known.
