WATERTOWN — Middlesex District Attorney Marian Ryan and Watertown Police Chief Justin Hanrahan announced in a joint statement that the deaths of three people at a residence on Boyd Street on the last day of August are presently being investigated as “an apparent murder-suicide.”
On Sunday, August 31, 2025, at approximately 10:00 a.m., Watertown police responded to a well-being check on Boyd Street. Upon arrival, officers found three residents deceased inside the home from apparent gunshot wounds.
“The preliminary investigation suggests that Nadia Abrahamian, 80, and Karine Asatryan, 35, were shot and killed by David Minasvand, 31 inside their home. After shooting the two women, David Minasvand died by an apparently self-inflicted gunshot,” Ryan and Hanrahan said in a joint statement issued on Sept. 2, 2025.
According to police, Abrahamian lived on one floor of the unit and the two other victims, Asatryan and Minasvand, lived together on the bottom floor in a separate living space in the same unit. All of the individuals involved were known to each other, and the three victims were the only people in the unit at the time of the shooting.
Ryan and Hanrahan said in their statement that the family had requested privacy. They later added that the incident was isolated and posed no threat to public safety.
The investigation is ongoing and is being conducted by the Middlesex District Attorney’s Office, Massachusetts State Police detectives assigned to the District Attorney’s Office, and the Watertown Police Department.
