Police looking for shooting suspect

Robert Shaffer

GLENDALE -- Glendale police are looking for a third suspect

following a Saturday night shootout in which two men were hit by gunfire.

“We don’t have his name. All we have is a nickname,” Glendale

Police spokesman Chahe Keuroghelian said. Investigators don’t want to

release the nickname, he said.

The gun battle is believed to have started after several people from

Hollywood showed up at a party at 1124 Thompson Ave. but were turned away

because it was too crowded. Several neighbors called police just before

10 p.m. after more than 50 people started to fight outside.

A 17-year-old boy was shot through the hand, and 19-year-old Mihran

Hovhannisyan of North Hollywood was shot in the buttocks. Both were

treated at hospitals and released.

Two people were arrested, 21-year-old Armen Tokmadzhyan and a

17-year-old male, on suspicion of attempted murder. Tokmadzhyan is

expected to plead to the charge today; the 17-year-old is being held at

Juvenile Hall in Los Angeles.

Saturday’s shootings were the exception to an otherwise peaceful

Halloween in Glendale. The city was safe and quiet, Keuroghelian said.

There were no incidents of vandalism or any other Halloween-related

mischief, he said. Officers responding to the shooting call pulled over

the man and the teenager, who were in a Honda Prelude, at the corner of

Alameda Avenue and Flower Street. The men were taken into custody based

on witness reports they were the shooters, Keuroghelian said. Authorities

are conducting gun residue tests, he said.

“We’re doing these tests to determine if who we have in custody are

the actual shooters,” he said.

Police later found two semiautomatic guns at the corner of Glenoaks

Boulevard and Thompson Avenue.

Vigen Lave, who lives next door to where the party was held, said he

heard four shots, but didn’t see anything.

“I stayed in my house,” he said.