Woman on UCLA shooter's 'kill list' found dead in Minnesota

Mainak Sarkar, the man who carried out a murder-suicide at University of California's Los Angeles campus left a "kill list" at his Minnesota home that led authorities to find a woman's body.

Sarkar, an alumni of the Indian Institute of Technology-Kharagpur, shot and killed professor William Klug in a small office in the UCLA before killing himself on Wednesday, The Los Angeles Times reported, citing sources.

When authorities searched Sarkar's Minnesota home, they found a "kill list" with the names of Klug, another UCLA professor and a woman, Police chief Charlie Beck said on Thursday.

The woman was found shot dead in her home in a nearby Minnesota town, he said. Beck said he could not release that woman's name. The other professor on the list is OK.

Beck said it appeared mental issues were involved and that Sarkar's dispute with Klug was tied to Sarkar thinking the professor released intellectual property that harmed Sarkar.

The shooting prompted a complete lockdown of the campus and deployment of hundreds of police officers as well as federal agents.

All university classes were cancelled on Wednesday. The lockdown was lifted shortly after noon. Some 43,000 students are enrolled at the UCLA campus, according to its website.

Klug, 39, was an associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and had been the target of Sarkar's anger on social media for months, the paper said.

He accused the professor of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, it said. "William Klug, UCLA professor is not the kind of person when you think of a professor. He is a very sick person. I urge every new student coming to UCLA to stay away from this guy," Sarkar wrote on March 10.

With inputs from PTI