25-YEAR-OLD GIRL MURDERED AND 24-YEAR-OLD BOY WOUNDED
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The seventy-year-old man sitting on a window-sill of apt. 7, house 188, Bashinjaghian Str., with a bloody face and an axe in his hand, threatened to jump out since 1.00 p.m. July 14.
Today he appeared in his former flat. He had already killed 25-year-old G. and wounded 24-year-old R. with a stonemason’s hammer. R. was taken to “Armenia” medical centre while G. died on the spot.
People crowded near the building wondering what the 70-year-old man would do next. N. now stood on the window-sill, looked down with his bloody face and then sat on the sill. Meanwhile policemen and rescurers were thinking of a plan to render N. harmless.
Finally, at about 4.00 policemen broke into the flat and took N. out. The sight was really appalling.
People gathered on the scene told A1+ that N. had attempted suicide four years before.
Neighbours said that N.’s son had pawned the flat and taken a loan of $2000 from a bank. “N. couldn’t pay the money and lost the flat. The boy cheated his mother and made her sign some documents. The poor woman obeyed him without realising the hanging grave consequences. Four years ago when the employees of Compulsory Service dropped in to vacate the flat, N. dropped a wheel on a police car from the seventh floor. The poor man had gone mad. Nevertheless, they were forced off,” a neighbour told A1+.
Former district head of Ajapnyak commune, Artsrun Khacahtrian, had given them $2000 so that they could pay the debt and keep the flat. They say the boy had squandered the money, too. The old people could hardly make both ends meet. They sold greens at the market. The woman died this year and N. stayed alone. He was completely at a loss,” said another neighbour.
One of the men grouped in front of the building told us that N. had sat beside them today and watched them playing backgammon. “He was in low spirits. He didn’t play. Nor did he utter a word. As far as I know he had appealed to court to return the flat but all his efforts were in vain. This is the real picture of our courts. They make people fly into a rage and become insane.”
A. Avagian whose daughter had been killed worked in a shop in the ground floor of the same building. “You cannot imagine how nice people they were. In fact, they had no connection with the flat, they simply rented it. Instead of punishing his own son, N. killed an innocent girl. It is still unknown whether the wounded boy will live. This is a great tragedy,” said the employees in tears.
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