Investigation of the criminal case, which was launched into the murder of an Armenian family in Georgia’s Vachiani village on July 10, is still in progress after the suicide of the defendant of this case.

Vachiani prefect Fedya Torosyan told about the aforesaid to Armenian News-NEWS.am.

“But, we still don’t have anything new [regarding this investigation],” he added.

Nodar Akopov, who was charged with these murders, had committed suicide in prison, on August 27.

Four members of the Kachotyan family—the 37-year-old mother as well as her 5-, 13-, and 18-year-old children—were found dead in their home in the aforesaid village in Javakheti—a predominantly-Armenian-populated part of Georgia’s southeastern Samtskhe-Javakheti Province, by their relatives, on July 10.

According to preliminary information, the assailant had killed the mother and her daughters with a blunt instrument, whereas strangled the boy to death. 

 

The table and chairs of the house were lying on the floor, and the house was sooty with smoke.

The father of the family, Vaghinak Kachotyan, was in Russia as a migrant worker.

To note, a recently opened Turkish-Georgian border checkpoint is nearby the said primarily-Armenian-populated village.