Today marks the one year anniversary of the murder of seven members of the Avetisyan family in Gyumri.
Armenia’s Investigative Committee has now charged Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, charged with the January 15, 2015 murder of seven Avetisyan family members in their Gyumri home, with armed robbery.
A Russian military court in Gyumri today sentenced Valery Permyakov, the Russian soldier found guilty for killing seven members of the Avetisyan family on January 12, to ten years for being AWOL and for carrying illegal firearms.
In the first installment of this article comparing the cases of murders committed by Russian soldiers, the first in 1999 and the second in January of 2015, I have concluded, after researching case materials at the Shirak Provincial Court that in the 1999 incident Armenian and Russian law enforcement bodies worked collaboratively, but that the Armenian side took the lead.
Hetq searched the court archives to compare the case materials regarding the January 12, 2015 murder of seven members of the Gyumri Avetisyan family, in which a Russian soldier has been charged, and the Gyumri murders committed by two Russian soldiers in 1999.
While the Investigative Committee (IC) has ordered a number of forensic and ballistic tests regarding the case, Hetq has learned that no psychological or psychiatric exams have been ordered as yet.
The top investigators of Armenian and Russia yesterday signed off on an agreement to create a joint command designed to effectively prosecute all those responsible for the Gyumri killing spree that has left seven dead.
A requiem service for Seryozha Avetisyan, the six month old boy who died yesterday from wounds sustained in a vicious attack that took place last Monday, will be held later this evening at the St. Nshan Armenian Apostolic Church in Gyumri.
Seryozha Avetisyan, the six month old baby boy who survived a deadly attack in Gyumri last Monday, died this afternoon in a Yerevan hospital where he was being treated for trauma.