Tamara Jachym, the mother of slain congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, said Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s clean-up of Washington, D.C., crime “needs to be done” so people in the nation’s capital can feel safe leaving their homes after 5 p.m.

Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was gunned down on June 30 not far from the White House, an innocent victim of a drive-by shooting between rival groups, police said. He was an intern for Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan. When Trump announced his plans to make D.C. safer, he cited Tarpinian-Jachym’s case as a recent example of violence in the city.

“I think it needs to be done,” Jachym told Newsmax’s “Wake Up America.” “Anyone who doesn’t want to live in a safe environment, then maybe they should move somewhere else, to another country that is full of chaos. This is what’s happening in D.C. You know, I listen to some of the newscasts and a lot of the elders, they want this to happen. They don’t feel safe leaving their houses, the elderly people, after 5 p.m.

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