SENIOR ARMENIAN POLICE OFFICIAL SHOT DEAD
Reuters
Feb 4 2009
YEREVAN, Feb 4 (Reuters) – Armenia’s deputy chief of police, a former
presidential aide, was shot dead late on Tuesday outside his home in
Yerevan, police said.
Colonel Gevorg Mheryan, 33, was shot three times in the head and
once in the body near the entrance to his 7th floor apartment shortly
before 8.30 p.m. (1630 GMT), a police statement said.
Mheryan was an aide to the president on judicial issues before being
appointed deputy chief of police in July 2008.
Local media reported that he also previously led a team monitoring
efforts to stamp out rampant corruption in the former Soviet republic.
The police statement said the country’s prosecutor-general, police
chief and security committee head had inspected the crime scene.
"The emergency services established that Mheryan died from bullets
to the head and body," the statement said.
"A criminal case has been launched and police are trying to track down
the person responsible." (Reporting by Hasmik Lazarian; writing by
Matt Robinson; editing by Dominic Evans)