LAPD shot dead American-Armenian man who was suicidal: reportMarch 1, 2018 - 14:50 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - An American man of Armenian descent who was fatally shot by Los Angeles police Monday, February 26 may have been suicidal, LAPD Chief Charlie Beck said Tuesday, according to the Los Angeles Daily News. The man was identified as 22-year-old Orbel Nazarians of Panorama City, according to Assistant Chief Ed Winter of the Los Angeles County Department of Medical-Examiner-Coroner. A man had placed a 911 call that morning reporting that he had a handgun and a knife and was suicidal in LAPD’s Mission Division, Beck told the Los Angeles Police Commission. When officers responded, they were confronted by an individual with whom they had contact before, knew by name and had been “placed on 72-hour (psychiatric) holds before,” he said. “They tried to de-escalate with him,” Beck said. After unsuccessfully deploying at least one bean bag round and a taser, “an officer-involved shooting eventually occurred when he moved forward to assault the officers.” Beck said the man “had been failed by the mental health system on multiple occasions” and called the shooting “unfortunate.” Photo. Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG Top stories The EU does not intend to conduct military exercises with Armenia, Lead Spokesperson for EU Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Peter Stano says. Hikmet Hajiyev has said that there is no place for USAID operation in Azerbaijan any longer. A telephone conversation between Putin and Pashinyan before the CSTO summit is not planned, Peskov says. London’s Armenian community has been left feeling “under attack” after the city’s Genocide monument was vandalised. Partner news | Russia clarifying reports on Baku’s alleged arms supply to Ukraine Russia says is carefully working to verify reports about alleged arms supplies from Azerbaijan to Ukraine Meeting with U.S., EU not against third parties, says Armenia The meeting scheduled for April 5 is dedicated to strengthening of the Armenia-EU-US cooperation, Yerevan added. Ucom launches network modernization efforts in few regions of Armenia In particular, on March 28, the legacy Mobile Switching Subsystem will be replaced with a new one. Armenia to sing in 2nd semi-final of Eurovision The organizers of Eurovision 2024 have revealed the running order of the countries in the two semi-finals. |