Overview

• The Investigative Committee said the latest detainee is the direct perpetrator, while an earlier suspect is being pursued for aiding the crime with a court-ordered arrest in place.
• Police reported a confession from the second detainee, who directed investigators to the hidden firearm that was seized as an automatic rifle.
• Searches at a suspect’s property uncovered a mask, gloves, shoes, a jacket and a night-vision device that investigators say were used in the attack and partly burned.
• Parakar community head Valodja Grigoryan and a criminal police officer were fatally shot near Grigoryan’s home on September 24, and a third person was wounded.
• Investigators continue evidentiary work and are examining a link to a February killing in Merdzavan as authorities maintain there is no political motive.