Cops say the torrent of tears over the shocking rubout murder of Hollywood’s doctor to the stars in August were of the crocodile kind.
Homicide detectives announced late Thursday they had arrested the ex-wife and four others in a twisted murder plot that left Dr. Hamid Mirshojae morgue-bound.
Mirshojae was assassinated in an ambush-style attack as he walked to his Lexus in the parking lot of his Woodland Hills clinic. He was dead at the scene.
Ahang Mirshojae, nee Kelk, was among five people arrested earlier this week for conspiracy to commit the murder, cops said, with detectives not revealing the motive or the role each of the alleged plotters played.
But after the 61-year-old doctor was shot in the back of the head by a masked man last Aug. 23, his ex-wife appeared to get ahead of the story.
She wrote on Facebook: “Hamid, the kids and I are in so much shock we miss you so bad. He was always helping people seeing tens and thousands of patients for decades we fought HARD to make life happen starting from nothing in the apartment and still the world is so cold (sic).
She added: “He left the world with four beautiful children. We want to be strong in the face of evil to remember Hamid — father, husband, doctor and friend.”
Born in Iran, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae built a prosperous practice that included “celebrities, movie stars, athletes and many people of different walks of life.”
According to cops, investigators raided Kelk’s Calabasas home hours before she was arrested.
Following the murder of her ex-husband, she denied any involvement in his death.
She told the Los Angeles Times: “It’s all lies.”
But cops didn’t think so.
Mirshojae remarried in 2023 and the couple shared a 6-month-old daughter at the time of his murder. They were visiting Turkey when the doctor was killed.
In the months before he was murdered, Mirshojae was living in fear for his life. In May he was attacked by baseball bat-wielding thugs outside his clinic.
“They came and they beat him with baseball bats,” an employee told the Los Angeles Times. “They were some strangers that we didn’t know.”
One bone of contention may have been a 2017 lawsuit.
Mirshojae sued Kelk and her fiance, Allen Yadegar, for embezzling his money. After their 2010 divorce, the mother of his three adult children continued acting as office manager for his clinics and other businesses.
The outcome of that lawsuit is not clear.
Cops say that in addition to the weeping widow, four others were arrested.
— Evan Hardman, 41, was arrested on Dec. 10 in Houston and charged with murder with special circumstances.
— Ashley Rose Sweeting, 40, was picked up in the San Fernando Valley on Tuesday for being an accessory to murder.
— Sarallah Jawed, 26, was charged with murder with special circumstances.
— Shawn Randolph, 46, was arrested and charged with murder.
Hardman and Jawed were also charged in the baseball bat beatdown.
Kelk and Randolph are being held without bail and their cases will be presented for filing consideration to the LA DA’s office on Dec. 16.
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