Gyumri murder suspect confesses to crime

The Russian fugitive serviceman suspected of killing six family members in Gyumri has admitted his complicity in the crime in a testimony.

After being caught on the Armenian-Russian border on Monday night, Valery Permyakov remains in the city’s military base, a deputy head of the Armenian Police, Hunan Poghosyan reporters today.  

“He said that he’d gone out for a walk around the city and went into that house where the incident occurs. The detainee continues to remain in the Russian military base,” the state news agency Armenpress quotes him as saying.

The murder took place at 6:00 Yerevan time on Monday. The only survivor in the family is a six-month-old infant who is reported to be in hospital in a post-surgical shock.