YEREVAN. – Armenia’s military prosecutor Gevorg Kostanyan dismissed reports about Syunik Governor Suren Khachatryan’s involvement in the shootout in Goris.

This was discovered while studying the video, Kostanyan said during the Wednesday press conference.  

Earlier Kostanyan said an armed assault on governor’s house on June 1 provoked a skirmish, panorama.am reported. As a result a man was killed and another two were injured in a shootout.

As Armenian News-NEWS.am informed earlier, shots were fired nearby Syunik Regional Governor Suren Khachatryan’s home, on June 2 at around 12:10am, as a result of which one person was killed and two others sustained gunshot wounds and were taken to Goris city hospital. The person who died was Avo Budaghyan, the former Goris mayoral candidate. The wounded are Budaghyan’s brother Artak, and Nikolay Abrahamyan, a relative and bodyguard of Khachatryan.

A criminal case is launched on charges of murder and illegal carrying, possession, and use of arms and ammunition, and an investigation is underway.

Some people were detained in connection with this incident. One of them was the Syunik regional governor’s son, Tigran Khachatryan, 19, and another was the governor’s bodyguard, Zarzand Nikoghosyan.