Shooting at UCLA

[christianity]

Lol...

They are scared of his car...

[Yermum]

Originally Posted by christianity

Lol...

They are scared of his car...

... wtf?

[christianity]

Originally Posted by Yermum

... wtf?

You haven't even looked at the local news now...

[christianity]

^... Please do so

[christianity]

Originally Posted by Yermum

... wtf?

.... Lets all hope you watched

[pbergen]

let's get this thread back on track with news that's actually relevant to the tragedy at ucla.

Handgun, gas cans found inside UCLA gunman's car, police say - LA Times

Los Angeles police officers found a handgun and several red gasoline cans in the trunk of UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar’s car, which was found in Culver City on Friday afternoon.

Authorities said they believe Sarkar drove the gray Nissan from Minnesota to L.A., parked on a residential street, and took a bus to the UCLA campus, where he fatally shot his former professor, William Klug, on Wednesday before committing suicide.

why would the shooter ditch the car in culver city and then take the bus to campus after having driven all the way from minnesota? why not just drive directly to campus and park illegally near the engineering building, especially since he obviously didn't need to worry about things like parking tickets?

Officers pulled at least six red gas cans – some full, some partially empty – out of the vehicle.

Hayes said it appears Sarkar used them to keep his car fueled in an effort to avoid using credit cards when traveling from Minnesota to Los Angeles. It did not look like the cans were used “for anything nefarious,” he said.

so maybe the perpretator had initially planned on a getaway after shooting the professor, but committed suicide after realizing that he had no chance of escaping.

or perhaps he'd always intended to commit a murder-suicide at ucla, but wanted to make sure he didn't get arrested during the drive from minnesota to los angeles.

Ballistic comparisons of shell casings recovered from UCLA and the scene of the Minnesota homicide appeared to match, police said.

“Preliminary indications are the casings were likely fired from Sarkar’s weapon,” Blake said.

Authorities had not yet had a chance to examine what kind of handgun was found in the trunk. An LAPD bomb squad examined the vehicle and did not find any evidence of explosives, authorities said.

Police found a ballistic vest and prescription medications in Sarkar’s St. Paul residence, Hayes said.

There was no evidence, he said, that anyone else was involved in the killings.

“This was simply him,” Hayes said.

“We have not been able to determine any trigger event that would lead to this or the murder of his wife.”

[pbergen]

UCLA shooter's slain wife had found happiness at medical school - LA Times

The couple had been dating in 2009 when Hasti was attending a post-baccalaureate pre-med program at Scripps College in Claremont. They married in 2011 and resided in Brooklyn Park, a city nestled along the west bank of the Mississippi River.

“They didn’t live together long – maybe a year,” recalled Charlane Bertsch, Hasti’s great-aunt.

Bertsch said the couple never seemed overly committed to the marriage and that Hasti didn’t bring up her husband during conversations. Still, she didn’t recall any great disputes between the two.

“He did his thing. She did hers,” Bertsch said. Hasti, whose mother died in 2011, remained close with her father and sister.

At some point and for reasons that are unclear, the couple parted ways. Sarkar began living in a small, three-story apartment building in St. Paul. He worked remotely as an engineering analyst for an Ohio-based rubber company.

Detectives believe that after Sarkar killed Hasti, he drove to Los Angeles to carry out his plan to shoot professor William Klug. Sarkar’s gray, 2003 Nissan Sentra was discovered Friday afternoon in Culver City.

LAPD Capt. William Hayes said late Friday that police found a handgun in the trunk, and that shell casings from the UCLA shooting appeared to match those found at the Minnesota shooting scene.

Before he earned degrees at UCLA and Stanford, Sarkar had attended high school in Durgapur, a steel-producing city in eastern India. He attended an English-language school and a teacher remembered him as a “brilliant” student, among the best in his class in the mid-1990s.

Goutam Viswas, a mathematics and chemistry teacher, was close to Sarkar, describing him as a “normal chap.”

[NyWriterdude]

This was just strange. As I understand it he had graduated from UCLA and moved on. Why go back to a place where you graduated a couple years before and kill someone?

I mean it's one thing to get carried away in the middle of a fight and kill someone, but to go back to a school and kill someone for some perceived slight? What a nutjob!

And on top of it he killed his wife.

[jm1982]

Originally Posted by NyWriterdude

This was just strange. As I understand it he had graduated from UCLA and moved on. Why go back to a place where you graduated a couple years before and kill someone?

I mean it's one thing to get carried away in the middle of a fight and kill someone, but to go back to a school and kill someone for some perceived slight? What a nutjob!

And on top of it he killed his wife.

Well with people like that you can't think about it rationally . I heard that people said he was a pretty mediocre student too. The professor sounded like he really cared about helping students too .

[christianity]

Originally Posted by jm1982

Well with people like that you can't think about it rationally . I heard that people said he was a pretty mediocre student too. The professor sounded like he really cared about helping students too .

Its almost like he gave him a grade he didn't deserve or something.....