Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was shot and killed on Aug. 23 whereas strolling to his SUV from his Woodland Hills-based medical clinic. On Thursday, his ex-wife, 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae, was amongst 5 folks arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit his homicide. She was being held with out bail, police stated.
On Friday, the Los Angeles County District Legal professional’s Workplace accused 41-year-old Evan Hardman, of Tomball, Texas, of pulling the set off and that he and one other man, 26-year-old Sarallah Jawed, carried out the slaying for monetary achieve.
Authorities haven’t stated how they linked the 5 folks to the physician’s slaying, nor have they disclosed a attainable motive.
Ahang Mirshojae filed for divorce from her husband in 2009, citing irreconcilable variations, court docket paperwork present.
What adopted was a sequence of threats and years of authorized battles, the newest a February lawsuit filed by Hamid Mirshojae claiming his ex-wife had transferred possession stakes in properties to relations to keep away from paying a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} in settlement funds and attorneys charges owed to him.
Each Mirshojae and his ex-wife claimed to be in concern for his or her lives in requests for restraining orders, which have been filed amongst different paperwork.
The court docket data present Hamid and Ahang Mirshojae labored collectively at Woodland Hills Medical Heart, of which Hamid Mirshojae was awarded full possession within the couple’s 2010 divorce, he wrote in a request for a restraining order filed in February 2017.
His ex-wife continued working on the clinic till November 2016, after Hamid Mirshojae claimed he caught her “embezzling substantial sums of money from the Clinic,” and fired her, he wrote in court docket papers.
However the threats appeared to begin shortly after Ahang Mirshojae filed for divorce. In October 2009, lower than a month after the petition was filed with the court docket, Hamid Mirshojae filed for a restraining order, claiming Ahang Mirshojae punched him with each fists one evening, then adopted him to work the following day and blocked the exit, he wrote.
“If I had a knife I would stab you to death,” he claimed she stated in entrance of the then-couple’s three kids. He wrote, “I am fearful for my life and I am scared. My children are scared.”
Issues appeared to return to a head in early 2017, as three extra requests for restraining orders have been filed, one by every of the Mirshojaes and one other by Ahang Mirshojae’s fiancé, Allen Yadegar, court docket data present.
Ahang Mirshojae filed for a restraining order on Dec. 8, 2016 claiming that Hamid Mirshojae confirmed up at her Calabasas house, threatened to kill her and “split me open to make me squeal like a pig,” whereas he held a bloody searching knife, and claimed he additionally made threats to seek out her then-fiance and kill him. In the course of the menace, she wrote, he pushed her and grabbed her arm and hand, inflicting bruising.
Yadegar filed for a restraining order lower than two weeks later claiming Hamid Mirshojae had entered his enterprise “with two hired guys and came after me forcing me to call LAPD,” he wrote, including the boys had a number of rifles and handguns.
In February 2017, Hamid Mirshojae filed for a restraining order, claiming his ex-wife continued to return to the clinic although she was not employed and that she bodily assaulted him whereas she was there on Dec. 14, 2016.
“In addition, her fiancé told me he had a weapon and that he was going to kill me,” Hamid Mirshojae wrote in a declaration included along with his court docket papers, including that she had earlier informed the clinic’s web site operator that “this was ‘war’ and that she will ‘burn everything to the ground’ if she does not get her way.”
Allegations towards Ahang Mirshojae didn’t solely come from her ex-husband. The couple’s oldest son additionally filed a restraining order towards his mom and Yadegar in August 2017 claiming they assaulted him whereas forcefully taking keys to an SUV that belonged to the clinic.
When the son, who was sitting in one other automobile outdoors his father’s Encino house, refused handy over the keys, Ahang Mirshojae and the Yadegar allegedly assaulted him and took the keys from his pocket; then Yadegar hit him whereas driving away within the SUV, injuring his ankle, the son wrote.
The son additionally claimed to have seen his mom doing surveillance of the house the place Hamid Mirshojae and the son lived on the time, and stated she seemed to be making an attempt to get inside when the physician was not there.
Yadegar has not been charged with any crimes associated to the claims of violence or Hamid Mirshojae’s killing.
Ahang Mirshojae has but to be charged in connection together with her ex-husband’s demise, however police stated they plan to current their case towards her and Randolph to the DA’s workplace Monday.
Initially Printed: December 15, 2024 at 7:28 AM PST
