The ex-wife of slain Woodland Hills doctor Hamid Mirshojae made her first court appearance in downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday. murder charges with special charges of lying in wait and murder for financial gain.
Ahang Mirshojae, 53, was charged Monday by District Attorney Nathan Hochman, who said “she has been charged with effectively hiring a hitman” to kill her ex-husband.
The Calabasas woman’s arraignment was postponed until Jan. 6 and she will remain in jail without bail.
Public records show that Ahang Mirshojae divorced the doctor in 2010.
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On the evening of August 23, Dr. left. Hamid Mirshojae left his medical clinic in Woodland Hills and then walked to his car he was shot by a masked man.
Los Angeles police investigators described the killing as a targeted hit Surveillance footage showed the suspected shooter waiting in a nearby parking lot for nearly an hour before the 61-year-old doctor left the building.
The district attorney’s office has charged four people, including Ahang Mirshojae, in connection with Dr. Mirshojae.
A 41-year-old Texas man is accused of being the shooter. Evan Hardman was arrested in the Houston area last Tuesday and is awaiting extradition to California.
The murder charges against him include charges of murder for financial gain and murder by lying in wait, along with allegations that he personally and intentionally discharged a firearm and that he has a string of theft convictions in Los Angeles County. until 2002, the complaint said.
Co-suspect Sarallah Jawed, 26, of Canoga Park, was arrested Wednesday and faces a murder charge, with a special circumstance charge of murder for financial gain. He appeared in court on Monday.
According to the Public Prosecution Service, Jawed drove Hardman out of the state a few days after the murder.
A fourth defendant, Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, of Reseda, was arrested last Tuesday and pleaded not guilty last Thursday to accessory after the fact along with the charge that she has one or more prior convictions for serious or violent crimes. .
Sweeting is accused of driving Hardman to and from the shooting scene and remains jailed in lieu of $1 million bail. She is due back in court on December 24, when a date will be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence against her. to bring the case to trial.
Prosecutors immediately declined to file charges against another man arrested in the case last week, Shawn Randolph, 46, of Valley Village, pending further investigation by police.
A few months prior to the murder, on May 3, Hardman and Jawed Dr. Mirshojae attacked with a blunt object. According to the Public Prosecution Service, Ahang Mirshojae is accused of hiring Hardman and Jawed to commit this crime as well.
