(L.A.) Hamid Mirshojae, 61, Died in in Woodland Hills

Case Number: 2024-13417

Los Angeles County is reporting the death of a 61-year-old male that occurred in a parking lot in Woodland Hills.

The coroner’s office has identified the man as Hamid Mirshojae.

Manner of Death: Homicide

Cause of Death: Gunshot Wound of Head

RIP HAMID MIRSHOJAE (June 6, 1963 – August 23, 2024)

Formal pronouncement of death was made on Friday at 6:20 p.m.

The decedent was a doctor who worked at the Warner Plaza Medical Center located at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Oxnard Street.

He was walking to his car when an unknown suspect approached him and shot him multiple times at around 5:34 p.m.

Mirshojae was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics.

LAPD said the suspect fled in an unknown direction, and no description was immediately available.

UPDATE: Apparently, the murder involved the victim’s ex-wife Ahang Mirshojae, who is accused of hiring thegunman.

Ahang in 2016 alleged that Hamid had “threatened to kill me” and “split me open to make me squeal like a pig” while he was brandishing a large hunting knife.

Hamid in turn indicates his ex was still working at the clinic after their divorce but he learned in October 2016 she was embezzling large sums of money. He fired her, saying she told him she intended to destroy the clinic in retaliation for grievances against him. He claimed in December 2016 she entered the clinic without permission and assaulted him, while her fiancé said he was armed and threatened to kill him.

Police have taken five people into custody for what was believed to be a murder-for-hire plot. Three of them have been charged in court as of mi-December.

The suspects facing various charges are Sarallah Jawed, 26, of Canoga Park; Ahang Mirshojae, 53, of Calabasas; Shawn Randolph, 46, of Valley Village; Evan Hardman, 41, of Tomball, Texas; and Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, of Reseda.

Investigators believe Hardman was the shooter, driven to and from the scene of the crime by Sweeting. They believe Jawed helped facilitate the murder and drive Hardman out of state afterward.

Hardman and Jawed are also suspected of a brutal bat attack May 3 on the doctor.