YEREVAN. – The relatives of the Avetisyan family, who were brutally killed recently in Armenia’s Gyumri city, on Tuesday will meet with the representatives of the agency which is conducting the investigation of this murder. 

Sona Truzyan, the adviser to the chairman of the Investigative Committees of Armenia, told Armenian News-NEWS.am that the investigators were in Gyumri, and they had invited the Avetisyan family relatives for a meeting. They, however, had noted that it would be better to meet in capital city Yerevan, since they live here.

Accordingly, the Avetisyan family relatives will meet with the investigators on Tuesday in Yerevan.

As reported earlier, six members of the Avetisyan family—including a two-year-old girl—were shot dead, and a six-month-old baby was wounded in their house in Gyumri on January 12; but the baby boy died in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in the city, stands accused in this crime. Permyakov was apprehended by the Russian border guards near the Armenian-Turkish border on the same night, he was arrested on January 14, and he is held in custody at the Russian military base.

The soldier is charged under Russian law, with “the murder of more than two people” and “desertion with a service weapon.” And on January 21, the Investigative Committee of Armenia also filed a criminal charge against Permyakov, and with “premeditated murder of two or more persons.” The Russian soldier has accepted the charge.