YEREVAN. – Criminal charges are brought Friday against Karapet Karapetyan, 37, who is suspected of hacking his own brother to death in capital city Yerevan, informed the press service of the Investigative Committee of Armenia.

In addition, the court granted the investigator’s motion to enforce arrest as the restraining order of the suspect. 

The Investigative Committee had earlier informed that the dead body—with head injuries—of Vladimir Karapetyan, 25, was discovered Tuesday morning, on the living room sofa of his house.  

The investigation revealed that Vladimir’s brother, Karapet, had hit his brother’s head with an axe several times on early Monday morning, and then left the house. The young man’s dead body was discovered the next day by his mother. Karapet Karapetyan was caught and detained on the same day.