In the framework of the criminal case investigated in Gegharkunik Regional Investigative Department of the RA Investigative Committee circumstances of murder of the resident of Geghamavan village Husik Zakaryan, born in 1962, the motive of the argument were found out, the people having committed the alleged crime were identified. Charge was pressed against two people.

56 year-old H. Zakaryan sustained bodily injuries incompatible with life on July 8, 2018. The latter with numerous cut-pierced penetrating wounds on the chest and abdomen was taken to Sevan medical center where he died on the same day – on July 8 at 21:55.

In the result of necessary investigatory and operative-searching measures taken within the criminal case initiated in the RA IC Gegharkunik Regional Investigative Department sufficient actual data were obtained on the allegation that the victim had sustained the bodily injuries incompatible with life during the argument with his fellow villagers.

Pursuant to preliminary investigation data, on the day of the incident the fellow villagers took part in a funeral. After it a row on domestic matters erupted near the ceremonial hall during which the resident of Geghamavan village A. Abrahamyan was beaten. The relatives of the victim H. Zakaryan were involved in the incident. A. Abrahamyan told his brother about what had happened and on the evening of the same day at about 20:30 taking a kitchen knife from the house they went towards Husik Zakaryan’s house. Meeting the latter at the fence they quarreled during which they stabbed H. Zakaryan for numerous times on his abdomen, chest causing bodily injuries incompatible with life.

On the base of the evidence obtained through the criminal case charge was pressed against Abrahamyan brothers according to the Point 7 of the Part 2 of the Article 104 of RA Criminal Code. Motions were submitted to court to choose detention as a pretrial measure against them. The motions were sufficed.

Preliminary investigation is ongoing. Necessary investigatory actions are conducted to provide the comprehensive, complete and objective investigation of the case.

Note; Everyone charged with alleged crime offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.