Armenian taxi driver brutally murdered in downtown Los Angeles - ForumDaily
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Armenian taxi driver brutally murdered in downtown Los Angeles

68-year-old taxi driver Hovhannes Papazyan was stabbed to death by a client in a parking lot of a fast-food restaurant in downtown Los Angeles. This happened on the evening of Friday, November 15.

Photo: video frame KTLA

Oganes Papazyan of Burbank died in 18: 00 as a result of an attack on a Burger King parking lot on Grand and Cesar Chavez Avenues, according to records from Los Angeles County Coroner Medical Examination Department officials, writes KTLA. The cause of death is confirmed by an autopsy.

Witnesses told KTLA that the man had parked in his car, two men got out of the taxi, one of them attacked Papazyan, knocked him down and stabbed him several times in the neck.

Los Angeles police in the first few hours after the incident reported that employees searched the area but did not find the killer. Police described the attacker as Hispanic at the age of 30 years, growing about 5 feet 9 inches (about 176 cm) with thick hair and a beard. He was wearing a black zipped jacket and black trousers.

He was later detained.

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The motive for the murder remains unclear.

The police said that the taxi was equipped with a camera, but in the first reports it was not clear whether it was turned on and was able to record something.

Photo: video frame KTLA

On Sunday evening, November 17, the police announced the arrest of a murder suspect, writes KTLA. Detectives collected evidence, including photos of the suspect from the crime scene. Soon, 32-year-old Victor Daniel Torres from Los Angeles was identified.

“Officers observed a man resembling the suspect on Sunday in the 500 block of North Main Street, approximately half a mile from the homicide scene,” the Los Angeles Police Department said in a written statement. He was taken to the police station for questioning.

Based on a combination of evidence and investigation (Torres) was arrested on suspicion of murder.

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It became known that after applying mortal blows, Torres tried to hijack a taxi, but could not.

“When the suspect was unable to find the key fob, he got out and fled on foot, leaving the taxi driver for dead,” police said in a statement.

The commander of the Los Angeles Police Department, Mark Reina, praised the work of investigators.

"Excellent work by officers and detectives led to the quick arrest of this suspect, who was wanted for the brutal murder of a taxi driver last Friday night," Reyna said on Twitter.

Photo: twitter.com/LAPDMarcReina

According to Torres’s past convictions, in 2007 he was detained for drunk driving, and in 2015 he threw an item into a car, according to records from the Los Angeles County Supreme Court. He was convicted of vandalism four times in the 2016 year, once in the 2017 year and once in the 2018 year.

According to officials, the pledge for Torres was set at 2 million dollars. On Tuesday, November 19, a hearing will be held on his case in the Los Angeles County Supreme Court.

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