A doctor was shot and killed Friday outside the medical clinic where he worked in Woodland Hills, according to police and media reports.
Officers found the 61-year-old man shortly before 6:15 p.m. near his vehicle in a parking lot in the 5900 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.
No suspects have been identified and the motive is unknown, investigators said.
Friends identified the victim as Hamid Mirshojae, a doctor at Woodland Hills Medical Clinic and Urgent Care, according to KTLA-TV.
“Everyone in the Woodland Hills area, even in Los Angeles, knows him because he was a very good doctor,” family friend Maryem Alaei told the outlet. Mirshojae worked long hours at the clinic helping patients, she said. His wife and 6-month-old baby were visiting family in Turkey at the time of the shooting, she added.
Mirshojae graduated from the Pacific College of Osteopathic Medicine and specialized in urgent and emergency care as well as addiction medicine, according to an online biography.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call LAPD Valley Bureau homicide detectives at (818) 374-9550.
