Chilling new details surrounding the targeted shooting of a beloved doctor have been unearthed which indicate he was beaten by several assailants months before his death.
The Los Angeles Times reported that Dr. Hamid Mirshojae, 61, was attacked by three men who beat him with baseball bats “several months” before he was shot dead in front of his medical practice in Woodland Hills last Friday evening.
While the exact date of the assault was not specified, an employee told the Times that afterward, Mirshojae was fearing for his life.
“They came and beat him with baseball bats,” said the employee, who requested anonymity out of concern for her safety. “They were some strangers we didn’t know.”
According to LAT, no arrests have been made in the case. It is not known whether the beating was related to the doctor’s killing.
An online biography indicates the doctor, who was originally from Iran, had more than two decades of experience providing urgent and emergency care and more than 10 years in addiction medicine.
The bio states that his patients included “celebrities, movie stars, athletes and many people from different walks of life.”
Mirshojae leaves behind four children and a wife. Viewers told KTLA 5 that his wife was in Turkey with their six-month-old child at the time of her husband’s death.