Man who killed varsity prof, also killed wife before campus incident

Murder-suicide suspect, Mainak Sarkar, the man who shot and killed a UCLA professor Wednesday before turning the gun on himself, is also believed to have killed his estranged wife in her Minnesota home before the shooting incident at the UCLA campus.

According to the Brooklyn Park Police Department, the Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s identified a body found in an apartment in Brooklyn Park as 31-year-old Ashley Erin Hasti, the estranged wife of the shooter.

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Reports say the couple had been separated for some time but no previous calls seem to have been placed relating to Hasti or Sarkar, before both incidents police said.

Police responded to a welfare check at the apartment building Thursday morning and found Hasti dead from an apparent gunshot wound.

The apartment had a broken window, and police believe that Sarkar climbed through it to gain access to the residence.

Early indications are that the shooting occurred prior to the UCLA incident, police said.

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