Altercation turns violent as woman guns down husband in rural Armenia

10:06, 25 May, 2017

YEREVAN, MAY 25, ARMENPRESS. The Ambulance station contacted the police department of Gugark, a village in Armenia’s Lori province, and notified that first responders discovered a dead body in a local home at midnight.

The Police HQ told ARMENPRESS officers were dispatched to the address and found the body of Tigran Martirosyan, 34, at the entrance of the house. The body had multiple gunshot wounds.

The victim’s wife, a 32 year old woman named Liana, confessed at the scene in carrying out the murder. She told officers that she took her husband’s handgun and gunned him down during an altercation.

Police confiscated the murder weapon – a Makarov handgun.

An investigation is underway.


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