Inset: Dr. Hamid Mirshojae (Detox Woodland Hills). Background: The Los Angeles Police Division investigates the homicide of Mirshojae, who was shot to demise exterior his detox clinic (KABC/YouTube).
The ex-wife of a California physician who reportedly helped celebrities and athletes overcome dependancy allegedly employed the person who killed her ex-husband in an ambush-style homicide for “monetary acquire.”
Los Angeles County District Legal professional Nathan Hochman introduced Monday that his workplace is charging 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae with homicide within the demise of her ex-husband, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae.
“She’s been charged with, successfully, hiring a hitman,” Hochman stated at a press convention.
Ahang Mirshojae is charged with homicide and assault with a lethal weapon. In response to Hochman, the ex-wife employed Evan Hardman, 41, to sneak up behind the physician as he left his Woodland Hills observe in August and shoot him behind the top earlier than a getaway driver, Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, helped him flee the scene. One other defendant, 26-year-old Sarallah Jawed, additionally helped perform the scheme by driving Hardman to Texas after the homicide, prosecutors say.
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“The horror and betrayal of this crime are past phrases,” Hochman stated in a press release. “The depth of the deceit and violence concerned on this case is chilling, and we won’t relaxation till justice is served.”
Hardman is accused of deliberately killing the sufferer by “mendacity in wait.” Sweeting, who’s charged with accent after the very fact, allegedly drove Hardman to and from the scene. Hardman and Sweeting waited till Dr. Mirshojae, 61, walked out of his workplace round 5:30 p.m. Aug. 23 and the alleged gunman carried out the homicide as he was coming into his automobile, prosecutors stated.
Hochman additionally revealed that Ahang Mirshojae employed Hardman and Jawed to leap her ex-husband on Could 3 and beat him with a blunt object, reportedly a baseball bat. Dr. Mirshojae and his ex-wife have had a decade-long authorized battle over their divorce, Los Angeles NBC affiliate KNBC reported, citing authorized paperwork. Prosecutors stated she ordered the hit for “monetary acquire” however haven’t stated what function the reported divorce battle could have performed within the slaying. Hamid Mirshojae had since remarried.
Revelations of the physician’s ex-wife allegedly orchestrating the homicide have left his household shocked.
“Instantly I begin desirous about my nephews and nieces. Their father was killed, and now their mom was the trigger. I nonetheless can’t digest it. I don’t perceive. Taking any person’s life, it’s past me,” his youthful brother Alireza Mirshojae advised KNBC. “It’s like I can’t perceive how might any person really feel a lot anger and resentment, and I don’t perceive how somebody would really feel to do one thing like this.”
As Legislation&Crime beforehand reported, officers arrested Hardman within the Houston space and Sweeting within the San Fernando Valley earlier this month.
In response to his biography on his web site, Dr. Mirshojae labored in dependancy medication for over a decade and offered emergency look after 20 years. It stated he handled “celebrities, film stars, athletes and many individuals of various walks of life.”
“He has helped hundreds of sufferers obtain their purpose of getting a sober life,” the bio stated.
Native CW affiliate KTLA reported the physician hailed from Iran. Mates and former sufferers spoke extremely of him.
“Everybody within the Woodland Hills space, even in LA, they know him as a result of he was a extremely good physician,” household pal Maryem Alaei advised KTLA within the aftermath of the capturing. “At all times laughing, all the time joking, all the time serving to folks.”
Stated former affected person Pamia Mazahrei: “I don’t know why unhealthy issues occur to people who find themselves good on this world.”
