“When he got here he was in very bad shape, he was having attacks of pain, he kept saying, ‘Oh, Mom, I’m dying.’ Different parts of his body were hurting, we took him to the hospital three times. Once he said, ‘Mom, I’d be better off dead, I don’t want to live.’ I said, ‘John, maybe you’ve done something wrong, tell me.”
Late in the evening of March 5, 2003 the Haylur news program announced that the murder of Tigran Naghdalyan had been solved. Among the images in the broadcast was a TT-model pistol with following letters and numbers on it: TT 265 50g. According to the statement distributed by the Prosecutor General’s Office, this was the pistol used to kill Naghdalyan.
Late in the evening of March 5th, when the public was awaiting the results of the second round of the presidential election, Public TV announced that law enforcement had discovered the person responsible for the December 28, 2002 assassination of journalist Tigran Naghdalyan, Chairman of the Board of Public Television and Radio.
Russian Lawyer Oleg Yunoshev made sensational statements at a press conference he called on January 14th. Yunoshev represents in court the interests of the family of former Prime Minister Vazgen Sarkissyan, who was killed in the parliament shootings of October 27, 1999. He is convinced that Tigran Naghdalyan's murder is directly linked to the October 27th case.
In a statement issued on January 9, 2003, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Republic of Armenia offered a $250,000 reward to any person who can help the investigation to discover who murdered Tigran Naghdalyan, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Armenian Public Television and Radio.
Tigran Naghdalyan, the chairman of the Board of Directors of Armenian Public Television and Radio, was shot in the head and killed on December 28, 2002.