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A Calabasas resident was set to be arraigned Wednesday morning in downtown Los Angeles in connection with the ambush killing of her ex-husband, a doctor who was gunned down outside his Woodland Hills medical practice last August.
Prosecutors have said that 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae, née Kelk, hired a hit man to murder Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, 61, with whom she fought a long and rancorous legal battle following a 2009 divorce.
She faces a charge of first-degree murder with the special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and committing the crime for financial gain.
Arrested on Dec. 12, Mirshojae was expected in court alongside Texas resident Evan Hardman, 41, who allegedly pulled the trigger, and Sarallah Jawed, 26, of Canoga Park, who helped facilitate the murder and drove Hardman out of state a few days later, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office.
Also charged in the case is Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, of Reseda, who allegedly drove Hardman to and from the scene of the crime. A fifth person, 46-year-old Shawn Randolph of Valley Village, was arrested on suspicion of murder but has not been charged. The Los Angeles Police Department continues to investigate.
In addition to the murder rap, Mirshojae faces one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon, stemming from a May 3 baseball-bat attack by three men on her former husband, which she is accused of having orchestrated. Hardman and Jawed, accused along with Mirshojae of carrying out the murder for financial gain, are also charged in that beating.
“The horror and betrayal of this crime are beyond words,” said District Attorney Nathan Hochman when the charges were announced against Mirshojae. “The depth of the deceit and violence involved in this case is chilling, and we will not rest until justice is served.”
Hamid Mirshojae was reportedly walking from his addiction treatment center in the 5900 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard to his car early in the evening of Aug. 23 when a masked man emerged from hiding around the corner and shot him in the back of the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
In the immediate aftermath, the victim’s ex-wife mourned him on social media and at a memorial held at the clinic where the killing occurred. Ahang Mirshojae hosted that event in September, weeping alongside two of the former couple’s three adult children, the Los Angeles Times reported.
There was scrutiny of the ex-wife right away, given the long history of legal disputes between her and the murdered physician, who remarried in 2023 and had a six-month-old baby at the time of his death. Ahang Mirshojae emphatically denied any involvement in the crime, telling the Times in August that suggestions to the contrary were “all lies.”
But December brought the arrests of her and her four alleged co-conspirators in the contract-killing scheme. Authorities have said the group represents “a local network of friends and acquaintances,” per media reports.
Just before she was taken into custody, police and federal agents searched Mirshojae’s home in the Mountain View Estates gated community in unincorporated Calabasas.
Since the Mirshojaes’ divorce, the erstwhile husband and wife fought in court over finances and property. Both parties accused the other of threatening violence.
