Mainak Sarkar, who police say carried out a murder-suicide at the University of California, had a "kill list" with multiple names that included professor Bill Klug, his estranged wife Ashley Hasti, who was found dead in a Minneapolis suburb, and another UCLA professor who was not harmed.

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LOS ANGELES – The latest US University campus shooter was an Indo-American named Mainak Sarkar, who targeted and killed his estranged wife Ashley Hasti.

The UCLA gunman Sarkar’s “kill list” had identified his estranged wife Hasti, whose body was found in a Minneapolis, Minnisota suburb .

Sarkar, a former UCLA doctoral student from India, met and married 31-year-old Hasti in California, NBC News quoted one of her relatives as saying. They separated several years ago

Sarkar killed himself after fatally shooting UCLA professor William Klug on Wednesday. His “kill list” named Klug, Hasti and another professor, who is safe.

Police said Sarkar accused Klug, who had helped him with his dissertation and whom he had once called a mentor, of stealing his computer code and giving it to someone else.

He came to Los Angeles armed with two semi-automatic pistols and multiple rounds of ammunition and magazines. Police have said he was “prepared to engage multiple victims”.

Sarkar lived in Minnesota and worked as an analyst with an engineering firm. Police found his address in a note he left behind, asking the finder to check on his cat.

At his house, they found the “kill list”. When they checked on Hasti, they found her dead with a gunshot wound. The police have not yet said when or why she was killed.

Mark Fitzgibbons, a relative of Hasti’s, told NBC they met in college — it was not clear if it was at UCLA — in California. They married in 2011, shortly after which Sarkar got his Green Card.

“He was a nice quiet young man,” Fitzgibbons said. “I don’t know what happened to make him do this. I am just as shocked as everyone else.”

Sarkar graduated from IIT-Kharagpur in aerospace engineering and worked briefly at Infosys. In the US, he went to the University of Texas and Stanford before UCLA.

Hasti's family has asked for privacy at this time but it appears the couple, who met in California in 2010 when Hasti was doing a course in a college there, could not make it work. While Sarkar was struggling to complete his PhD program at UCLA, Hasti returned to her home state and was enrolled in the University of Minnesota Medical School since 2012.

Sarkar appears to have moved back and forth between the two states considering he maintained a home in Minnesota and also worked remotely as an engineering analyst for an Ohio-based rubber company Endurica till 2014. The company did not say under what circumstances he left, but a testimonial from the company's President on Sarkar's Linked-in page read, in part: "Mainak is a steady contributor with solid technical skills in FEA and software development. I appreciate the quality of his work, and his careful approach to new problems."

While Sarkar railed against his Ph.D advisor William Klug in blog posts for stealing his code and giving it to others, one of Klug's friends was quoted as saying Sarkar was a subpar student and the advisor was "extremely generous to him." But in exchanges online, some Indians belonging to the more-to-this-than-meets-the-eye school have wondered how an IIT undergrad who earned a Master's at Stanford, arguably the greatest pedigree in engineering, could be considered subpar.

The LA police through believes Sarkar may have gone "mental" given all the stresses he was going through in life, including an adversarial relationship with his advisor. "Everybody tries to look for a reason for this. Well, first of all, there is no good reason for this," LAPD chief Charlie Beck a local TV station. "This is a mental issue, mental derangement, but it was tied to a dispute over intellectual property."

The only bright spot in this dark tale. Sarkar did not kill a third person or cause carnage on campus. He had the goods to do that – two semi-automatic guns and plenty of ammo. No one is yet asking where and how he procured the guns as a Ph.D student, much less why guns are so easily available in the United States.