On July 7, hours before reveille at his post in Kelbajar, Garik decided to take his life. Garik’s family says that under the influence of threats from the officer the previous day, not only against him personally but also against his family, at about five o’clock in the morning Garik woke up and went to the electricity substation of the military unit, and electrocuted himself.

The young man was in a coma for five days before awaking in Central Military Hospital in Yerevan.