Murder Of Armenian Investigated In Moscow

MURDER OF ARMENIAN INVESTIGATED IN MOSCOW

ITAR-TASS News Agency
June 11, 2006 Sunday 08:07 AM EST

The prosecutor’s office of the Moscow northeastern administrative
city district is to bring criminal charges against a driver of the
Noginsk meatpacking factory who shot to death a citizen of Armenia
and injured his compatriot on Saturday.

A police spokesman told Itar-Tass that the driver was detained on
Saturday evening on one of Moscow streets.

During a quarrel with the two Armenians, he fired a handgun shot into
the chest of one, 44, who died on the spot.

He injured with a shot in the chest the other 24-year-old Armenian,
who was taken to a city hospital.

Investigators are examining circumstances of the incident.