Two men were killed and a third wounded in a Valley Glen strip mall shooting tied to a business dispute. Arkadi Simonyan, 44, was shot in the chest and pronounced dead at the scene on June 19, 2023, after officers responded to reports of gunfire around 10 p.m. The shooting occurred outside a smoke shop near Coldwater Canyon Avenue and Victory Boulevard after a parking-lot collision between a Mercedes-Benz SUV and a Mercedes-Benz sedan preceded an altercation involving three individuals.

During the confrontation two men drew firearms and exchanged gunfire, leaving all three people injured. Alongside Arkadi Simonyan, 38-year-old Mesrop Malkhasyan was also killed. The surviving man, 23-year-old Vahan Simonyan, was hospitalized and later arrested on suspicion of murder. The LAPD said no other suspects were being sought and described the dispute as business-related; further details of that dispute were not released.

Does anyone have information about who owned or worked at the businesses involved or who witnessed the collision and subsequent altercation?