Overview

• Police spokesman Narek Sargsyan said the detainee admitted firing on three people in Merdzavan, leaving two dead and one wounded, and that the firearm used was recovered.
• Valodya Grigoryan, the opposition head of the Parakar community, and his friend, a criminal police officer, were shot dead near Grigoryan’s home on the night of September 24.
• Investigators reported seizing a mask, gloves, shoes, a jacket and a night‑vision device in a building tied to the suspect, and said the items had been partially burned.
• Armenian media have identified the detainee as Narek Oganyan, a relative of a man killed in the same village in February, a case investigators have reviewed for possible links.
• The Interior Ministry says the killing was not politically motivated and stems from a personal conflict connected to the February incident, though multiple versions were initially examined.