A doctor was shot and killed Friday outside the medical clinic where he worked in Woodland Hills, according to police and media.
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 suspect has been identified and the motive is unknown, investigators say.
Friends identified the victim as Hamid Mirshojae, a physician at Woodland Hills Medical Clinic and Urgent Care, according to KTLA-TV.
“Everybody in the Woodland Hills area, even in LA, they know him because he was a really good doctor,” family friend Maryem Alaei told the outlet. Mirshojae worked long hours at the clinic to help patients, she said. His wife and six-month-old child were visiting family in Turkey at the time of the shooting, she added.
Mirshojae graduated from the College of Osteopathic Medicine of the Pacific and specialized in emergency and critical care, as well as addiction medicine, according to an online biography.
Anyone with information about the shooting was asked to call the LAPD’s Valley Bureau homicide detectives at (818) 374-9550.