{"id":271858,"date":"2016-03-25T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-25T07:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=271858"},"modified":"2016-03-25T11:32:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T07:32:53","slug":"armenian-conscript-denies-intentionally-shooting-fellow-serviceman-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/25\/armenian-conscript-denies-intentionally-shooting-fellow-serviceman-press.html","title":{"rendered":"Armenian Conscript Denies Intentionally Shooting Fellow Serviceman: Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t19-year-old Nagorno-Karabakh Defense Army conscript Mikayel Zakaryan, who has been charged with shooting and killing fellow soldier <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/en\/2016\/03\/23\/nkr-defense-army-junior-sergeant-fatally-shot-by-conscript-officials-say.html\"><span style=\"color:#0000FF;\">Hovhannes Harutyunyan<\/span><\/a> on March 17, denies the murder was intentional. Erik Beglaryan, a lawyer for Zakaryan, told Haykakan Zhamanak newspaper that the defendant and the victim &ldquo;were close friends&rdquo; and Zakaryan &ldquo;had no motive whatsoever&rdquo; to kill Harutyunyan.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t&ldquo;Do they kill while laughing? Is that even possible? [The soldiers] were laughing and joking and playfully pulling the [loaded] weapon from each other&#39;s hands when it accidentally fired,&rdquo; Beglaryan said, citing Zakaryan&#39;s testimony.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe lawyer said he has motioned to the prosecutor to change the defendant&#39;s murder charges envisaging up to life of imprisonment to violation of rules for safe firearm handling (3-7 years in jail).<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawyer said he has motioned to the prosecutor to change the defendant&#8217;s murder charges envisaging up to life of imprisonment to violation of rules for safe firearm handling (3-7 years in jail)&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":208560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10329,12009,60175,13901,11083],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271858"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/208560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}