A number of months earlier than he was fatally shot outdoors his Woodland Hills medical apply, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was jumped by three males who beat him with baseball bats, an worker and police instructed The Instances.
After the assault, the worker mentioned, Mirshojae instructed her he was in concern for his life.
“They got here and so they beat him with baseball bats. … They have been some strangers that we didn’t know,” mentioned the worker, who requested anonymity out of concern for her security.
No arrests have been made within the case, and the investigation is ongoing, mentioned police, who didn’t reveal exactly when the assault occurred. It’s not clear whether or not the beating was associated to Mirshojae’s killing final week. Los Angeles police Det. Christine Moselle mentioned detectives are conscious of the sooner assault, which stays unsolved.
The revelation of the sooner violence towards the physician, who was mourned by the neighborhood as a caring and beloved practitioner, raised new questions in regards to the surprising slaying that has left the Woodland Hills neighborhood reeling.
Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was shot and killed outdoors his medical heart, Warner Plaza Medical Clinic, in Woodland Hills on Friday.
(Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Instances)
As police continued their investigation Tuesday, they mentioned that Mirshojae was the sufferer of a focused killing and that it was a sole gunman who had taken the physician’s life. Video confirmed the deadly capturing.
The physician was strolling from his clinic towards his Lexus, which was parked within the nook of the lot, round 5:30 p.m. when an assailant got here working from the rear entrance of the parking zone and shot him from point-blank vary.
Mirshojae seemingly didn’t see what occurred as a result of he was shot from behind, in line with the worker, who reviewed surveillance video of the physician’s remaining moments.
The worker had left the workplace quarter-hour earlier than the killing. By the point she returned, after 7 p.m., the parking zone had been swarmed by police. She mentioned she may see her boss’ legs splayed out on the bottom.
Moselle instructed The Instances that the shooter seemingly didn’t alternate phrases with Mirshojae and that Mirshojae was “shot virtually instantly.”
The video shouldn’t be solely clear, nevertheless it seems the shooter was a person, Moselle mentioned.
Investigators are inspecting the physician’s historical past and interactions for clues as to who might have killed him and why, Moselle mentioned. However for now, the motive stays unknown, she mentioned.
