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Hovanef Papazyan, 73, was shot and killed outside his Van Nuys home on the 6700 block of Greenbush Avenue on the morning of October 29, 2017. The attack occurred about 10 a.m. when an unknown assailant approached him, produced a handgun and fired multiple times. Papazyan was taken to a local hospital and pronounced dead at 11:37 a.m.; the Medical Examiner‑Coroner listed multiple gunshot wounds as the cause of death and ruled the manner homicide.

The shooter fled the scene immediately after the shooting. The Los Angeles Police Department opened an investigation and asked the public for help, but there were no immediate leads and no arrests reported in the aftermath.

Did anyone in Valley Glen see or hear anything that morning that could help identify the shooter?