Today, at around 9:30 am outside his Goravan village home in Ararat Marz, well-know criminal Marzpetuni Petrosyan was shot and died in the Vedi hospital. Ten minutes after the incident Perjik Shaboyan, a Vedi resident turned himself in at the Ararat police department and confessed to the crime, saying that he had gone to the deceased house to settle some personal scores. Mr. Shaboyan handed over a 12 mm hunting rifle and three rounds of ammunition to police. He was arrested and an investigation is now underway. Photo-journalist Gagik Shamshyan reports that police have surrounded the deceased house and are conducting an examination of the crime scene. "Local residents have been telling me conflicting stories as to the motive of the shooting, so I can't report anything definite. I've only been able to come up with the factory registration number of the hunting rifle; 4915," Mr. Shamshyan reported. "Prime Time" reports that Marzpetuni Petrosyan, who has a long criminal record moved to the Moscow region from Yerevan in the late 1990's where he headed a drug gang made up of Armenians. On November 16, 2007 he was criminally charged with possession of 10 kilos of hashish in Moscow. He was fined 35,000 rubles and deported to Armenia.