COURT EXTENDS CUSTODY TERM FOR STUDENT WHO KILLED ARMENIAN MAN
by Alana Kudzoyeva
ITAR-TASS News Agency
April 25, 2006 Tuesday 02:48 PM EST
Moscow City’s Cheryomushki district court has extended for another
three days a custody term for a 16-year-old general school student,
who killed a young ethnic Armenian at a downtown metro station
Saturday night.
The extension of custody term means that the prosecutors have another
three days for formulating official charges against the suspect.
Sources indicate that the prosecutors may simultaneously reformulate
the accusation of murder, which the teenager is suspected of.
His lawyer strongly denied reporters’ requests to comment on the
situation.
The incident occurred at around 17:50 Saturday, when a group of
twelve young people was standing on the platform and awaiting one
more of their friends. At that moment, another group of six or
seven youngsters got out of a train bound for southeast Moscow,
and a scuffle between the two groups broke out.
In the course of fighting, Vagan Abramiants, a 17-year-old student
of the Moscow University of Management, received a stab wound in the
chest and died on the spot.