Federal marshals on the island surrounded Zareh Manjikian’s apartment complex in Carolina the capitol of Puerto Rico. The 23-year-old finally appeared, pulled out in his car and headed down the coast. Marshals followed him into a neighboring beach town and, when the opportunity came, swooped and boxed his vehicle in. He was hauled away in cuffs. Judge Gloria Maynard ignored a request from authorities in L.A. to hold Manjikian without bail. Judge Maynard released the murder suspect on May 13 on a $50,000 bond, officials said. Manjikian hasn’t been seen since.

On June 8, 2011 City Councilman Paul Krekorian called for a federal investigation into the decision by the Puerto Rican judge to release the murder suspect. Krekorian introduced a motion calling on the Los Angeles congressional delegation and Senators Barbara Boxer and Diane Feinstein., to push for an investigation by the FBI and other relevant federal agencies.

“I cannot comprehend any justification for this judge to release a murder suspect who may be responsible for brutally taking an innocent life over nothing more than a text message,” Krekorian said. “This bail decision is so completely contrary to standard protocol it defies any explanation based on law, evidence or justice.”

The November 2009 killing that Manjikian is accused of committing drew national attention after being detailed in The L. A. Times last year. The events that led to Mike Yepremyan’s death began after he sent a text message to his girlfriend, calling her friend Kat Vardanian a bitch.

According to prosecutors, Vardanian saw the text message and, enraged, called her brother to beat up Yepremyan. Soon after, Yepremyan began receiving phone calls from a stranger who eventually told him to meet him at a Sears parking lot in North Hollywood, according to witnesses. There, Yepremyan and several friends encountered two men. The conversation appeared to be coming to a peaceful conclusion when, suddenly, one man struck Yepremyan. Right after that, authorities said, Manjikian brandished a gun and shot the 19-year-old in the back of his head. Manjikian and the other man, identified by prosecutors as Vahagn Jurian, sped off in a black BMW with no front license plate.

Last week, Jurian’s Van Nuys home was being watched by police, who moved in and arrested the 23-year-old on suspicion of murder after Manjikian’s arrest. He remains in custody on a 3 million dollar bail.

John J. Nazarian predicts there will be other arrests made soon in this case. Let’s hope so for the family of Mike Yepremyan

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If you remember 19 year old Gombert Yepremyan, was a fine young man known to friends and family as “Mike,” and was brutally murdered over a text message. Mike was a student at Pierce College and worked as an emergency vehicle dispatcher. A devoted son to his loving mother Ani and father Art Yepremyan, Mike attended LA Baptist High School where he met his lovely girlfriend, Danielle Wegrzyn. He was a good kid who worked hard and kept out of trouble. One Valentine Day, Mike borrowed some money from his father, Art Yepremyan to make sure every girl in his high school class got a long stem red rose that day. Mike had talked to his parents just two weeks before his death, and honoring that wish, Mike’s organs were donated saving so many additional lives, even in death, Mike gave to others, although they were strangers.

On Nov. 18, 2009, Mike was murdered on the corner of Laurel Canyon and Victory Blvds, at the Sears parking lot in North Hollywood. Earlier that evening, Mike had sent a text message to his girlfriend, Danielle, warning her to “Stay away from that bitch,” that bitch being Khatun “Kat” Vardanian, a girl Danielle had begun hanging out with occasionally. He just had a bad feeling about her…little did he know how prophetic that feeling would be. The text message came through while Danielle’s iphone was sitting in her car’s center console, where Kat saw it, went into a rage, and immediately set in motion the events that led to Mike’s death only hours later. She allegedly called relatives who got together an Armenian posse who went gunning for Mike. Mike and his school buddies agreed to meet them to “talk it over.” But before they knew what happened, Mike had been shot in the neck, hitman-style. The getaway driver fled the country, however he appears to be one of the ones coming back to the U. S. today. Murdered over a phone text message. “Every time u hang out with that bitch u guys get hookah. Is there something cool bout her n hookah that u enjoy so much?” he text-ed”

Remembering back:

Photographs line the walls of the Granada Hills home, of a young man with warm brown eyes and dark hair. It was a warm Saturday afternoon. Beams of sunlight catch on the glass frames.

We will stay on top of this case and hope to have an interview with Mike’s parents this weekend as to how do they feel that it appears that the judicial system is beginning to work, and those who murdered their son “might” now be brought to justice.

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