The revelation of earlier violence against Dr. Hamid Mirshojae raised new questions about the fatal shooting, which has left the Woodland Hills community reeling.
Several months before he was fatally shot outside his Woodland Hills medical practice, Dr. Hamid Mirshojae was jumped by three men who beat him with baseball bats, an employee and police told The Times. After the attack, the employee said, Mirshojae told her he was in fear for his life. 'They came and they beat him with baseball bats. ... They were some strangers that we didn't know,' said the employee, who requested anonymity out of concern for her safety.
As police continued their investigation Tuesday, they said that Mirshojae was the victim of a targeted killing and that it was a sole gunman who had taken the doctor's life. Video showed the fatal shooting. The doctor was walking from his clinic toward his Lexus, which was parked in the corner of the lot, when an assailant came running from the rear entrance of the parking lot and shot him from point-blank range about 5:30 p.m.
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