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UCLA murder-suicide investigation update

A murder suicide took place inside the Engineering IV building on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
A murder suicide took place inside the Engineering IV building on the University of California, Los Angeles campus on Wednesday, June 1, 2016.
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UCLA murder-suicide investigation update

Both the gunman and the victim in the UCLA murder-suicide have now been identified.

The victim was William Klug, a UCLA mechanical engineering professor. The gunman has been identified as Mainak Sarkar, a Ph.D. student who had worked with Klug's research group.

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