# UCLA shooting: student kills prof over grades **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 2, 2016, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273 "2016-06-02T01:58:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Dr.Drake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Dr.Drake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Drake)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/21 "2016-06-02T15:33:14Z")
> [@Tom\_Tildrum](#): > > Does the guy’s roommate get a 4.0? No, they discontinued the folklore program at UCLA about 10 years ago. Now he just has to deal with reality. Or get a gun… ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/22 "2016-06-02T15:39:20Z")
This shooter had a hit list and had murdered a woman in Minnesota before travelling back to Cali to kill the professor. Source: LAPD police chief ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/23 "2016-06-02T15:46:35Z")
> [@JRDelirious](#): > > Words fail at the notion that someone who has made it to that level of education figures that physical intimidation, threats of violence(\*) or actual deadly force are valid ways to address disputes or grievances, or that a failure is a cause for just bringing down the roof on yourself and others in deadly anger… yet it is bafflingly so common! > > (\*That extends also to online threat campaigns and doxxings.) > > Too much of this around, this bizarre life-negating despair that because things haven’t gone your way there has been some cosmic injustice and everyone’s world must end in pain too. I don’t think rational thought went into his decision making process, regardless of his level of education. In fact, mid-20s is frequently when certain types of mental illness begin to appear. It’s not unusual, as professors, to be someone the first to be aware of a student’s decline. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/24 "2016-06-02T16:01:22Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > More on the motivations behind this shooting > > [UCLA gunman planned to kill two professors but could find only one, police say](http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-mainak-sarkar-ucla-20160602-snap-story.html) > > And a gofundme page for the young children of the slain professor Am I missing part of the article or something? What kind of journalist just throws in > [@](#): > > Sarkar, a resident of Minnesota, had killed a woman in a small town in that state Without any context or further information? Did he kill, fly halfway across the country and kill again, or did he kill Minnesota woman a long time ago? ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/25 "2016-06-02T16:09:08Z")
“Sarkar had driven from Minnesota to Los Angeles with two semiautomatic handguns , and investigators were still searching for the vehicle, which the chief described as a gray Nissan Sentra with Minnesota license plates 720KTW. Beck said police don’t expect it to be “any significant danger” but asks anyone who sees it to call police.” So yeah, it sounds like he killed the woman, drove to LA, killed the professor and then died. How horrible. edit: According to [this article](http://www.nbcnews.com/news/crime-courts/ucla-gunman-mainak-sarkar-had-kill-list-may-have-slayed-n584616) it was the kill list that led them to finding the dead woman. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/26 "2016-06-02T16:09:18Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > Am I missing part of the article or something? > > What kind of journalist just throws in > > Without any context or further information? Did he kill, fly halfway across the country and kill again, or did he kill Minnesota woman a long time ago? The authorities haven’t released info on that killing because of the hitlist and the ongoing investigation. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/27 "2016-06-02T17:08:21Z")
As a former college student many times I thought of some way of “getting back” at teachers or school leaders whom I had a problem with. I never would have done any of them though. Nowadays students just post on “Rate My Professor”. I do wish colleges would take student evaluations more seriously AND include those of students who drop out of a course before the end. Sadly though with the millions of college students out there something like this was bound to happen sooner or later. Its just math. If there are only say 1 in 100 million who would do such a thing and the millions of students with such thoughts, this was bound to happen. The fact that it only happens once ever 10 years or so is amazing. ---
**Author:** ![Algher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Algher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algher)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/28 "2016-06-02T17:09:31Z")
> **[​UCLA shooting updates: Woman who was married to UCLA shooter lived at...](https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-ucla-shooting-live-updates-htmlstory.html#details-about-the-ucla-shooter-he-drove-from-minnesota-to-l-a-and-had-two-guns)** > > 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... > [@](#): > > The gunman has been identified as Mainak Sarkar, a former doctoral student who had accused the victim of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else, the LAPD said Thursday. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/29 "2016-06-02T19:20:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Ashley Hasti, 31, whose last Facebook photo with Sarkar dates back to 2011, has been confirmed as a student at the University of Minnesota Medical School and a former tutor at North Hennepin Technical College. She did not appear to be Facebook friends with Mainak Sarkar at the time of her death. > **[What we know about Ashley Hasti, Minnesota victim of UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar](https://www.startribune.com/what-we-know-about-ashley-hasti-minnesota-victim-of-ucla-shooter-mainak-sarkar/381681181)** Picture: [http://stmedia.stimg.co/08-4333555569ucla060316.jpg](http://stmedia.stimg.co/08-4333555569ucla060316.jpg) So it sounds like the woman he killed was a former girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![psychobunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/54ee81/32.png) [@psychobunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychobunny)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2016, 11:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/30 "2016-06-02T23:18:35Z")
Considering they had been married, I’d call her a little more than a former girlfriend. ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/31 "2016-06-03T06:35:22Z")
> [@psychobunny](#): > > Considering they had been married, I’d call her a little more than a former girlfriend. Apparently still were: > [@](#): > > The grandmother of the slain wife of the UCLA gunman says the two of them “just didn’t get along.” > > Jean Johnson, grandmother of Ashley Hasti, told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that her granddaughter and Mainak Sarkar split about a year after they married in 2011, and she moved back to her hometown of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. > > Johnson said the two didn’t get a divorce because Hasti couldn’t afford one. [https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-woman-on-ucla-gunmans-kill-list-was-his-wife/2016/06/02/a7ce4a40-2925-11e6-8329-6104954928d2\_story.html](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/the-latest-woman-on-ucla-gunmans-kill-list-was-his-wife/2016/06/02/a7ce4a40-2925-11e6-8329-6104954928d2_story.html) But if you don’t have kids and have insignificant assets why would it be expensive to get a divorce? ---
**Author:** ![Lord\_Feldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lord_feldon/32/341_2.png) [@Lord\_Feldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lord_Feldon)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2016, 6:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273/32 "2016-06-03T06:40:59Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > But if you don’t have kids and have insignificant assets why would it be expensive to get a divorce? The filing fees are pretty steep in some states. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ucla-shooting-student-kills-prof-over-grades/756273.md?page=1)