The ex-wife of a prominent Los Angeles doctor – killed in an ambush He was arrested and charged with murder when police raided his home – outside his clinic – in August.
The Los Angeles Police Department announced that Ahang Mirshoje, née Kelk, was among five people arrested earlier this week on charges of plotting to murder Dr. Hamid Mirshoje.
No motive emerged in the suspected murder and police have not released details of each role the suspect allegedly played in Dr. Mirshoje’s death.
Dr. Mirshoje, 61, was shot in the back of the head by a “masked man” in the parking lot of his family clinic on the 5900 block of Topanga Canyon Blvd. on August 23, 2024 in the Woodland Hills neighborhood of Los Angeles.
After the fatal shooting, the gunman ran past Woodland Hills Medical Clinic and Urgent Care as police responded to an “ambulance shooting” call 42 minutes later.
Mirshoje was declared dead at the scene.
After a nearly four-month-long investigation, police officials announced the arrest of Kelk and four others.
Kelk, 53, mourned her ex-husband’s death in a since-deleted Facebook post.
“Hamid, the kids and I are in shock, we miss you so much,” she said. “On August 23 at 5:30 pm they took Hamid away from us, just before his practice. He was always helping people seeing tens and thousands of patients, we worked hard for decades to start life from scratch in an apartment and yet the world is so cold.
Now the suspected killer says his family will have to be “strong in the face of evil” to remember Mirshoje.
The former couple had three adult children.
Hours before his arrest, LAPD and federal investigators raided Kelk’s Calabasas home on Thursday evening. According to KTTV.
It was not disclosed whether anything was found during the search or not.
In August, Kelk denied any involvement in her ex-husband’s death.
“It’s all lies,” she said Los Angeles Times.
After separating from his ex-wife, Dr. Mirshoje remarried in 2023, and the newlyweds had a 6-month-old baby girl at the time of his death.
His new wife and daughter were visiting family in Türkiye at the time of the shooting, but returned to the United States after learning the heartbreaking news.
Suspicious
Along with the arrest of Ahang Mirshoje on Thursday, police also arrested and charged four other people for the suspected murder on August 23.
Evan Hardman, 41, was arrested in the Houston, Texas area on December 10 and charged with murder with special circumstances and will be transferred to LAPD custody.
Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, was arrested in the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday on charges of accessory to murder.
Sarla Javed, 26, was taken into custody on Wednesday and charged with murder under special circumstances.
Shawn Randolph, 46, was arrested Thursday and charged with murder.
Hardman and Javed were also accused of attacking Dr. Mirshoje with a baseball bat in May, Fox 11 reports.
Both were charged with assault with a deadly weapon for the May 3 attack, which left Mirshoje fearing for his life.
“They came over and beat him with a baseball bat,” said one employee. Los Angeles Times In those days. “They were some strangers we didn’t know.”
Kelk and Randolph are being held without bail and their cases will be presented to the LA DA’s office for consideration on December 16.
The investigation is ongoing, the LAPD said.
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