Tamara Jachym, the mother of slain congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, said she was watching President Donald Trump’s announcement Monday about federalizing the police force in Washington, D.C., when he referenced her late son, and that moment assured her that “things are going to change” in the city she told Newsmax.
“And I started to cry, and I said, ‘Eric, you didn’t die in vain. They care about you,'” Jachym said on “Finnerty.”
Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was killed by gunfire on June 30 one mile from the White House, an innocent bystander in a shooting between rival groups, police said.
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