A former student who shot dead a California professor before turning the gun on himself had drawn up a "kill list" that included a woman found dead at her home in Minnesota, police said on Thursday.
Mainak Sarkar, 38, entered a small office in the engineering building at the sprawling University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA) on Wednesday and shot William Klug, 39, a professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering, before killing himself, authorities said.
Los Angeles police said a search of Sarkar's home in Minnesota had turned up a "kill list" that named Klug as well as another UCLA professor who was not harmed.
Police spokeswoman Jane Kim said that a woman's name was also on the list, prompting police to go to her home in a small town in the midwestern state, where she was found dead from a gunshot wound. The woman was not identified.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Sarkar, a former graduate student, believed Klug had stolen his computer code and had given it to someone else.
The murder-suicide prompted a lockdown and a massive security deployment at the university, amid fears of a mass shooting.
The Times quoted a source as saying that Sarkar's claims against Klug were "absolutely untrue" and described the victim, a father of two, as a gentle man.
The source said Klug had gone out of his way to help Sarkar finish his dissertation in 2013 and to graduate, even though his work was subpar.
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