SUSPECT IN TWO PEOPLE MURDER CASE IN MALATIA-SEBASTIA COMMUNITY ARRESTED

Noyan Tapan
Jun 27 2006

YEREVAN, JUNE 27, NOYAN TAPAN. Stepan Hakobian, a person suspected
of the crime envisaged by Article 235 Part 1 of the RA Criminal
Code – illegal keeping of ammunition, was arrested on June 24 in
connection with the case of two people’s murder in Malatia-Sebastia
community. NT correspondent was informed about it from spokeswoman
for the RA Prosecutor General Sona Truzian.

To recap, according to the same source, on June 22, at about 3:00 pm,
at the crossroads of Sebastia and Tichina Streets an unknown person
committed a murder in the way dangerous for the lives of many people –
opened fire on Sedrak Vahan Zatikian, 26, who was in his Mersedes car
(registration number of licence plate 10SS045), as a result of which
S. Zatikian and a passer-by Karine Manuk Sargsian, 37, received bullet
wounds and died on the spot. 24 bullet cases were found on the scene
of the crime.

S. Zatikian was the son of Vahan Zatikian, former head of Yerevan’s
Malatia-Sebastia community in 1996-99, a deputy of the RA National
Assembly, who suddenly died on October 8, 1999.

A criminal case was opened based on the above mentioned fact under
Article 104 Part 2 Points 1 and 6 and Article 235 Part 1 of the RA
Criminal Code.

The case is being investigated by a group of investigators on
particularly important cases of the Investigation Department of the
RA Prosecutor General’s Office.