The legal heirs of the slain Avetisyan family and the representatives of these legal heirs have not yet met with Russian soldier Valery Permyakov, who is the accused in the brutal murder of the Avetisyan family in Armenia’s Gyumri city.    

Yerem Sargsyan, the attorney of these legal heirs, told about the above-said to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

He noted that the most likely chance of seeing Permyakov is the actual trial, albeit there is a possibility of meeting with him in the investigation phase, too.  

The attorney also informed that they have attended the forensic ballistic, chemical and trace examinations, whose conclusions have not yet come in.

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; and the baby boy died in hospital on January 19.

Valery Permyakov, a serviceman of the 102nd Russian Military Base in Gyumri, 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 charges. 

The motives for this murder are unknown to this day.