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Ex-wife arrested in LA doctor's shooting
Ahang Mirshojae, the ex-wife of Los Angeles doctor Ahang Mirshojae, was among the suspects.
LOS ANGELES - Five people have been arrested for the murder of Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, who was killed in an ambush-style attack outside a Woodland Hills medical clinic on August 23, the Los Angeles Police Department announced Thursday night.
The LAPD named one of the suspects as the doctor's ex-wife, Ahang Mirshojae. Authorities believe the shooting may have been a murder-for-hire case.
Federal agents and the LAPD raided the Calabasas home belonging to his ex-wife Thursday evening.
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3 charged with murdering Woodland Hills doctor
Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was killed in an ambush-style attack outside a Woodland Hills medical clinic on August 23. Three people have been charged with his murder.
Ahang Mirshojae, 53, was taken into custody and booked for murder. Another man, 46-year-old Shawn Randolph, was also taken into custody Thursday and booked for murder. Both Randolph and Mirshojae are being held without bail.
Ashley Rose Sweeting & Evan Hardman
On Tuesday, Dec. 10, police arrested Evan Hardman, 41, of Tomball, Texas, and Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, of Reseda. The following day, police arrested Sarallah Jawed, 26.
On Thursday, Hardman and Jawed were each charged with murder. The two are each facing a special-circumstance allegation of murder for financial gain.
Hardman is also facing a special-circumstance allegation of murder by means of lying in wait, along with allegations that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm and that he has one or more prior serious or violent felony convictions, according to court records.
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Ex-wife, 4 others arrested for doctor's fatal shooting
The ex-wife of a doctor and four other suspects were arrested for an alleged murder-for-hire plot in Woodland Hills.
Hardman and Jawed are also charged with one count each of assault with a deadly weapon in connection with an alleged baseball bat attack May 3 on Mirshojae.
Ashley Rose Sweeting, pleaded not guilty Thursday to one count of being an accessory after the fact, along with an allegation that she has one or more prior serious or violent felony convictions.
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2 arrested for killing of Woodland Hills doctor
The LAPD has arrested two people in connection with the murder of Dr. Hamid Mirshojae in Woodland Hills in August.
Deputy District Attorney Benjamin Schwartz told a judge that Sweeting allegedly drove the shooter to and from the crime scene in a "situation that appeared to be a murder for hire." She has a string of criminal convictions for offenses including first-degree burglary and grand theft and is on diversion in a carjacking case, the prosecutor said.
Sweeting was ordered to remain jailed on $1 million bail. She is due back in court Dec. 24.
Jawed was ordered to remain jailed without bail.
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Dr. Mirshojae was walking to his SUV in the parking lot of the Woodland Hills Medical Clinic and Urgent Care on Topanga Canyon Boulevard, when a masked man emerged from the corner of the clinic and ran towards him, LAPD stated.
The suspect then fired a shot at Dr. Mirshojae in an ambush-style attack and fled away from the scene.
Mirshojae was 61.
City News Service contributed to this report.