Senior officer arrested in private’s death in Artsakh
A senior officer has been arrested in the death of a 19-year-old private of the Artsakh Defense Army, authorities said.
The soldier, identified as Volodya Galoyan, was found dead near a military post in the country’s south on Tuesday night.
In a statement on Wednesday, Armenia’s Investigative Committee said the soldier tried to kill his senior officer of the military post with an AK-74 assault rifle attached to him on Monday, but failed to finish the crime due to unpredicted circumstances.
Immediately after opening fire Galoyan fled the scene, after which his body was found at around 50 meters away from the military post with a gunshot wound in the jaw and his rifle next to him on Wednesday, at 4:20am.
A criminal case has been launched into "causing somebody to commit suicide or to make a suicide attempt by indirect willfulness or by negligence, by means of threat, cruel treatment or regular humiliation of one’s dignity."
Preliminary investigation is underway.
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