6 SUSPECTS ARRAIGNED IN 2 FATAL SHOOTINGS : PROSECUTORS SAY GROUP TRIED TO EXTORT MONEY.Byline: Lee Condon Daily News Staff Writer Six men were arraigned in Glendale Municipal Court on Thursday on murder and robbery charges in connection with a shootout Shootout Venture capital jargon. Refers to two or more venture capital firms fighting for the startup. at a local clothing store that left two people dead. Prosecutors say the men went to the Mirage Clothing and Shoe Store at 620 S. Glendale Ave AVE Avenue AVE Average AVE Alta Velocidad Espanola (train between Madrid and Seville) AVE Alta Velocidad Española (Spanish: High Speed Train) AVE Audio Video Entertainment AVE Advertising Value Equivalent . on Dec. 17 about 11:30 p.m. in an effort to extort To compel or coerce, as in a confession or information, by any means serving to overcome the other's power of resistance, thus making the confession or admission involuntary. To gain by wrongful methods; to obtain in an unlawful manner, as in to compel payments by means of threats of protection money from the owner. At some point, guns were drawn and a shootout ensued, with participants on both sides of the dispute firing at one another, police said. Police added they believe the six men are part of an organized ring targeting small businesses owned by Armenian immigrants. But a team of lawyers for the suspects said after court proceedings Thursday that their clients are not connected to an extortion extortion, in law, unlawful demanding or receiving by an officer, in his official capacity, of any property or money not legally due to him. Examples include requesting and accepting fees in excess of those allowed to him by statute or arresting a person and, with ring, and that they are not responsible for the deaths at the store. All six men pleaded not guilty. ``The evidence will show that these men are not individually liable for murder or extortion or robbery,'' said James E. Blatt, one of six lawyers who appeared in court to defend the suspects. The defendants declined to waive To intentionally or voluntarily relinquish a known right or engage in conduct warranting an inference that a right has been surrendered. For example, an individual is said to waive the right to bring a tort action when he or she renounces the remedy provided by law for such the requirement for a speedy trial The Sixth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution guarantees all persons accused of criminal wrongdoing the right to a speedy trial. Although this right is derived from the federal Constitution, it has been made applicable to state criminal proceedings through the U.S. and a preliminary hearing date was set for Jan. 23. The suspects are: Hovhanes Takvoryan, 23, of North Hollywood; Karen Takvoryan, 22, of North Hollywood; Hovik Fiterz, 36, of North Hollywood; Khoren Broutian, 32, of Hollywood; Gagik Kazarian, 44, of Glendale; and Mger Tagvoryan, 23, of North Hollywood. The six men were each charged with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Edmom Tokatlyan, a 19-year-old Glendale resident, and Artur Atyan, a 27-year-old North Hollywood resident. Tokatlyan was a friend of the store owner, Ara Karpetian. |
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