Every day in the U.S. about 108 people are shot dead in one way or another.
At GunMemorial.org we try to post pages for all of these people
even though the circumstances of their deaths can be drastically different.
Mainak Sarkar, age 38
Fatally shot on June 1, 2016 in Los Angeles, California.
Mainak was formerly a UCLA grad student who lived in Minnesota. He killed a woman in Minnesota that he had been married to, a UCLA professor, and himself.
Photo sources:
- Los Angeles Times: For UCLA shooter Mainak Sarkar, sudden rage after years of intense academic studies
- Heavy.com: Ashley Hasti: 5 Fast Facts You Need to Know
- https://everipedia.org/wiki/lang_en/mainak-sarkar
News sources:
- latimes.com: ?UCLA shooting updates: Woman who was married to UCLA shooter lived at Minnesota crime scene
- William Klug
- Jun 1: KTLA: 2 Dead in Murder-Suicide in Engineering Building on UCLA Campus
- ABC7 Los Angeles: 2 men dead in murder-suicide at UCLA campus
- Gun Violence Archive
2 other people also died in this incident.
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