A divorce battle that spanned 15 years between a Woodland Hills doctor and his ex-wife included financial and custody disputes as well as a series of restraining orders with claims of threats of violence, according to some of the court records reviewed by the Southern California News Group. Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was shot and killed on Aug.
23 while walking to his SUV from his Woodland Hills-based medical clinic. On Thursday, his ex-wife, 53-year-old Ahang Mirshojae, was among five people arrested on suspicion of conspiring to commit his murder . She was being held without bail, police said.
On Friday, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office accused 41-year-old Evan Hardman, of Tomball, Texas, of pulling the trigger and that he and another man, 26-year-old Sarallah Jawed, carried out the slaying for financial gain. Authorities have not said how they linked the five people to the doctor’s slaying, nor have they disclosed a possible motive. Ahang Mirshojae filed for divorce from her husband in 2009, citing irreconcilable differences, court documents show.
What followed was a series of threats and years of legal battles, the most recent a February lawsuit filed by Hamid Mirshojae claiming his ex-wife had transferred ownership stakes in properties to family members to avoid paying hundreds of thousands of dollars in settlement funds and attorneys fees owed to him. Both Mirshojae and his ex-wife claimed to be in fear for their lives in requests for restraining orders, w.
