Doctor shot outside Woodland Hills clinic

According to police and media reports, a doctor was shot dead on Friday outside the medical clinic where he worked in Woodland Hills.

Officers found the 61-year-old man next to his vehicle in a parking lot in the 5900 block of Topanga Canyon Boulevard shortly before 6:15 p.m., Los Angeles police said in a news release. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene.

According to investigators, no suspect has yet been identified and the motive is unknown.

According to KTLA-TV, friends identified the victim as Hamid Mirshojae, a doctor at Woodland Hills Medical Clinic and Urgent Care.

“Everyone in the Woodland Hills area, even in LA, knows him because he was a really good doctor,” Maryem Alaei, a family friend, told the outlet. Mirshojae worked long hours at the clinic to help patients, she said. His wife and 6-month-old baby were visiting family in Turkey at the time of the shooting, she added.

According to an online biography, Mirshojae graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and specialized in emergency care and addiction medicine.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call the LAPD Valley Bureau Homicide Unit at (818) 374-9550.