Sept. 5 (UPI) -- Two 17-year-old males were arrested in the fatal shooting of a 21-year-old congressional intern, U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro announced Friday.
Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was shot on June 30 outside Mt. Vernon Square Metro Station in northwest D.C. and died at a hospital. He was an intern for U.S. Rep. Ron Estes, a Republican serving Kansas, and was a rising senior with a major in finance and a minor in political science at the University of Massachusetts.
Watch Live Today at 12:00 p.m. ET: @USAttyPirro, to provide update on arrests in the murder of Congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym.
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"He was an innocent bystander who was caught in a violent act that was not meant for him," Pirro said at a news conference. "His death is a stark reminder of how fragile life is and how violence too often visits us in the nation's capital."
