A criminal who captured a hostage in Yerevan was sentenced to long imprisonment for a serious crime
ArmInfo.Armenian Investigative Committee released the details of the crime of capturing a hostage in the Yerevan community of Erebuni on August 29.
According to IC message, as a result of operational search activities it was found that Gor Hakobyan, born in 1986, who captured a 24-year-old woman in Yerevan's billiard club on the 29th of August, was sentenced to a long prison term in the USA for a serious crime . He was deported to Armenia 4 months ago, after two months Hakobyan got acquainted with a woman who later took hostage. With her, he came to the club on the night of August 29, and at 3:30 pm on the same day Hakobyan broke the windows and inventory of the club in order to attract attention. And when the club gathered passers-by and law enforcement officers, the man put a knife to the throat of his companion, threatening to kill her and demanding that the club included five civilians and a lawyer. Attempts by law enforcement officers to persuade the perpetrator to release the hostage were unsuccessful, and a decision was made to neutralize him. As a result of the operation to neutralize the criminal was injured incompatible with life. It is noteworthy that at the first attempt to neutralize the criminal the police sniper missed and only with the second attempt he managed to hit the target.
A criminal case was opened on the fact. After the release, the woman was taken to the medical center "Erebuni". As ArmInfo was told in the Ministry of Health, her life is out of danger, the state is medium- heavy. The woman is in a stressful state, her body has multiple abrasions and stab wounds.