The wife of UCLA gunman Mainak Sarkar was fatally shot in her Minnesota home before the disgruntled PhD drove across the country and killed his former professor in his office, leading to a chaotic lockdown that lasted several hours on the sprawling Los Angeles campus.
Ashley Hasti, a 31-year-old medical student, was found dead in her Brooklyn Park on Thursday, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reports.
A day earlier, Sarkar shot engineering professor William Klug at UCLA. Sarkar fatally shot himself after killing Klug, but police searched the campus out of an abundance of caution, forcing terrified students and staff to frantically lock themselves inside classes and offices until the all clear was given.
Hasti was listed on a “kill list” found inside Sarkar’s St. Paul, Minnesota home, police said.
It was originally reported that Hasti was Sarkar’s ex-girlfriend, but authorities told that they were married.