Family members have identified the doctor who was shot to death outside a Los Angeles medical clinic as 61-year-old Hamid Mirshojae.
Ahang Zarin, Mirshojae’s ex-wife, wrote in a Facebook post on Aug. 27 that their four children are shocked and miss their father.
“They took Hamid away from us right in front of his practice. He was always helping people seeing tens and thousands of patients for decades we fought HARD to make life happen starting from nothing in the apartment and still the world is so cold,” Zarin wrote. “He left the world with 4 beautiful children.”
Mirshojae was found with a gunshot wound near his car on Aug. 23 in front of his workplace, the Woodland Hills Medical Clinic & Urgent Care in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) and paramedics were called to the 5900 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard for a reported shooting, according to an Aug. 24 LAPD press release.
Officers and paramedics arrived at around 6:12 p.m. and pronounced Mirshojae dead at the scene.
Warner Plaza Urgent Center, where Woodland Hills Medical Clinic & Urgent Care is located states that Mirshojae garnered over two decades of experience as an osteopathic doctor who specialized in family and emergency medicine. According to his bio, he was an expert in Osteopathic Manipulation Treatment and helped patients with addiction.
Detectives from the Valley Bureau Homicide were called to the scene to search for witnesses and evidence of the killing. Initial investigations have not found any suspects, and the motive remains unknown.
Police are requesting anyone with information about this incident to contact the Valley Bureau Homicide detectives at (818) 374-9550.