A while ago, gunshots were heard in Armenia’s Armavir Province. At around 10:00, the Vagharshapat police station received an alarm from Vagharshapat Medical Center that it had received a citizen transferred with firearm injuries.

According to Shamshyan.com, doctors told police that the injured was incapable of giving an explanation of what had happened since he was in the surgery room.

While doctors continue to fight for the injured party’s life, with their operational data, the police officers and investigators of Armavir Province have established that the injured was transferred to the hospital from near the cemeteries located in the back of St. Hripsime Church of the city of Etchmiadzin, and a Mercedes E320 (license plate number 75 MM 070) was detected at the specified site with several traces of a gunshot.

A criminal case has been instituted under the elements of a particular article of the Criminal Code of Armenia. Police and investigators are establishing the identity of the injured and taking operational intelligence and investigative measures to establish the circumstances of the incident and reveal the crime.

At this moment, expert criminologists are at the scene of the incident. Police and investigators have established that the injured is resident of Armavir Province, 27-year-old Gurgen Arakelyan, and his father, Armen Arakelyan sentenced to imprisonment for killing a Turk in the Russian Federation years ago.