California
William “Bill” Klug, a UCLA professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, was insatiably curious about the way complex things worked — cancer cells, the HIV virus, the tissue in a beating heart.
June 2, 2016
June 2, 2016, 5:55 p.m.
June 3, 2016
UCLA professor Ajit Mal was in his UCLA office Wednesday getting ready to teach his 10 a.m. engineering class when he heard an odd sound.
June 4, 2016
The gunman who killed a UCLA professor before committing suicide on campus Wednesday left behind a “kill list” and is suspected in the shooting death of a woman in Minnesota, authorities said.
Books
After news broke that there had been a shooting attack at UCLA Wednesday, the campus was swarmed by law enforcement officers and we later learned that professor William Klug had been killed killed by a former student, who then took his own life).
World & Nation
University of California at Los Angeles professor Ajit Mal was in his campus office Wednesday getting ready to teach his 10 a.m. engineering class when he heard an odd sound.
The gunman was dead. Beside him, two semiautomatic pistols, extra magazines and a backpack.
Politics
In the latest salvo in the rapidly escalating war against perks, a Republican congressman charged Friday that the executive branch is paying for memberships in private health clubs for scores of federal employees at a cost of nearly $1 million a year.
April 11, 1992
A Minnesota woman who was killed by UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar was studying to become a doctor before her life “was cut short much too soon by her estranged husband,” according to the victim’s sister.
Mainak Sarkar shot William S. Klug, his former professor, and then committed suicide in an engineering building at UCLA on Wednesday morning, Los Angeles police say.Sarkar, who came to UCLA armed with two pistols and extra ammunition, had accused Klug of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the LAPD said.Sarkar, 38, lived in Minnesota and appears also to have killed a woman in a small town in that state. Police have not identified the woman found shot to death in Brooklyn Park, Minn., but Ashley Hasti, who married Sarkar in 2011, is listed as the resident of the home in which the body was found. Sarkar left a note at the UCLA shooting scene, which led police to his St. Paul, Minn. home, where they found a “kill list” bearing the Minnesota victim’s name, along with Klug’s and that of another UCLA professor, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said.Klug, 39, was a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering. The second UCLA professor on Sarkar’s list has not been named. He is safe. UCLA classes -- except for those in engineering -- resumed Thursday.