Kathimerini, Greece
Dec 27 2004

Halkidiki coffee shop owner killed trying to break up customer row

A 20-year-old Armenian national was arrested yesterday in connection
with the shooting of a 50-year-old coffee shop owner in the village
of Doubia in Halkidiki, police said. The incident occurred in the
early hours of the morning when the suspect, who has not been named,
is thought to have had an argument with another man at the local
cafe. The Armenian, who is a Thessaloniki resident but was spending
Christmas in Doubia, is said to have gone to his mother’s nearby
home, picked up a single-barreled shotgun and returned to the coffee
shop. He allegedly then began arguing with the father of the man with
whom he had the earlier row, at which point the cafe owner stepped in
to separate them and the 20-year-old shot him, officers said.