“A woman found dead in a Minnesota home on Thursday and whose name appeared on a “kill list” left behind by the man who committed a murder-suicide at UCLA was married to him.
“The LAPD confirmed to local TV station WCCO that the victim, Ashley Hasti, was the wife of Mainak Sarkar, the man who murdered his former engineering professor in his office Wednesday on UCLA’s campus before fatally shooting himself.
“A note found at the UCLA crime scene asking officials to check on Sarkar’s cat prompted the LAPD to contact officers in Sarkar’s hometown of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.
“When officers arrived at the residence, they found Hasti dead from a gunshot wound and a “kill list” that named Hasti, deceased professor William Klug and another UCLA professor, who has not been identified.”
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