Police Chief: UCLA Shooter Mainak Sarkar Was Heavily Armed, Planned to Kill Other UCLA Professor

UCLA shooter Mainak Sakar 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.

Los Angeles Police Department officers patrol the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) campus after a shooting, June 1, 2016, in Los Angeles, California. Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images

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.

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