Suspect in Armenian-Related Restaurant Shooting Captured
Diaspora — By Liana Aghajanian on April 21, 2010 3:19 pm
Nerses Galstyan, photo provided by LAPD
Nerses Galstyan, the suspect wanted in connection with the shooting of four people at a Valley Village restaurant has been captured by authorities less than a month after the incident in the Seattle area, the Los Angeles Times reports today.
Galstyan, 28, and his brother Samuel Galstyan were taken into custody Tuesday evening in the suburb of Kenmore, law enforcement sources told The Times. The men are expected to be returned as early as Wednesday to the Los Angeles area.
Police, who had previously indicated that they believed the shooting was tied to gang activity said Galstyan was attending a celebration honoring a friend who had died a year earlier at the Hot Spot cafe in Valley Village when an argument led to the shooting deaths of Sarkis Karadjian, 26, Harut Baburyan, 28, Hayk Yegnanyan, 25 and Vardan Tofalyan, 31.
A federal grand jury indicted Galstyan on April 9, on suspicion of dealing firearms without a license and possessing a weapon with an obliterated serial number.
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Wow he deserves everything coming to him, if not worse. What are we trying to prove, as Armenians, shooting eschother. No matter whatt those men did, he had no right taking their lives, let alone shooting them. The worst part of it all is on April 24th “Armenians” march to thee Turkish embassy and protest. We need to first off stop shooting eachother then maybe, just maybe, turks will have respect for us and recognise the genocide. As an Armenian I am serioulsly disgusted, and furious. We all need to stop and think before we do anything that is going to jeopardize the whole community.
he’s lucky the police found him before other armenians did. this man is inhumane and deserves to suffer a long and painful death for putting four families through what he did. when you fire your gun, do you not think, even for a second, that he might have a wife, a father, a family? i wish you the worst in life because that’s all you deserve. who are you to take someone else’s life? people raised these men. god will give you what you deserve. i hate you.
I’m sorry for you lose!!
TOO MUCH NEGATIVE NEWS…WE MUST TURN THING AROUND. ALSO VERY IMPORTANT, WE MUST STICK TOGETHER.
FrustratedArmenian: April 24 is a different story and you are not the one who should say what we have to do first. Yes i agree we need to stop killing eachother but April 24 but be recognized and i dont care who does what please do not link it to April 24.
According to the L.A. Times Comments, from Armenians who post on it, one of the dead men had been previously involved in the shooting of another Armenian gang member. Apparently, the Galstyan brothers simply exacted revenge on the killing – specially if one or more of the victims at the restaurant were bragging about it. It seems like just miscellaneous gang activity…
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