Police identify victims in deadly shooting outside Valley Glen smoke shop
Detectives identified the two men killed in the shooting as 44-year-old Arkadi Simonyan and 38-year-old Mesrop Malkhasyan.
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Detectives identified the two men killed in the shooting as 44-year-old Arkadi Simonyan and 38-year-old Mesrop Malkhasyan.
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