Shooting in Yerevan; there are wounded.
According to photojournalist Gagik Shamshyan, who is reporting from the scene, around 01:10, the Criminal Police of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Yerevan Criminal Police, and the Arabkir Community Police Division received operational information that gunshots had been fired near a private house in the vicinity of the Khachatur Abovyan Museum. As a result, an ambulance team from Yerevan’s "103" service transported two individuals suffering from gunshot wounds to the Mikaelyan Institute of Surgery.
The ambulance medics first provided on-site first aid before transporting the victims to the hospital; a third person was also transported from the intersection near the "Lamp Factory" on Tbilisi Highway. Artur Barseghyan, Head of the Criminal Police Department of the RA Ministry of Internal Affairs; Hayk Harutyunyan, Head of the Yerevan Criminal Police Department; and Ruben Nersisyan, Head of the Arabkir Police Division, visited the hospital.
Doctors at the Mikaelyan Institute of Surgery managed to save the lives of the two wounded individuals brought to the facility.
The doctors informed the police officers that the wounded individuals were unable to provide a statement regarding the incident, as they were in the operating room. Criminal and community police officers have already identified the scenes of the incidents, where they discovered spent and unfired assault rifle cartridges as well as blood-like traces. Meanwhile, on Tbilisi Highway, officers from the 1st Company of the 4th Battalion of the Yerevan Regiment of the Patrol Service—specifically Regiment Commander Andranik Khachatryan, Battalion Commander Davit Nikoghosyan, Company Commander Armen Zakaryan, and patrol officers Lusine Manukyan and Tigran Amirkhanyan—risked their lives to neutralize an assault rifle-wielding man who also bore blood-like traces on his person. The officers provided necessary on-site medical aid before an ambulance transported him to Yerevan Hospital No. 8. The Yerevan Criminal Police reported the incident to the Investigative Department of the Kanaker-Zeytun administrative district (part of the Investigative Committee’s Yerevan City Department); an investigative team and a forensic expert from the Investigative Committee subsequently arrived at the scene.
Criminal proceedings have been initiated at the investigative department regarding the incident.
The police and the investigative department are conducting joint operational-search and investigative actions to establish the circumstances of the incident, identify the participants and the injured parties, and locate them.
In the interest of the preliminary investigation, certain details regarding the incident are not being disclosed at this time.
Photo by Gagik Shamshyan
Notice: A person suspected or accused of an alleged crime is presumed innocent until their guilt is proven in the manner prescribed by the Criminal Procedure Code of the Republic of Armenia—by a court judgment that has entered into legal force.
