While the eyes of the country’s political world have been turned on Washington this week for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda, tragedy struck the family of a Republican congressional intern on a far more personal level.
Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a 21-year-old University of Massachusetts student working as an intern for GOP Rep. Ron Estes of Kansas, was fatally shot Monday night in downtown D.C., according to The Washington Post.
And the bullets that killed him were “intended for someone else,” the Post reported.
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The incident occurred about 10:30 p.m. near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, according to the Post.
ABC News reported that “multiple” gunmen emerged from a vehicle and started firing in what the station described as a “targeted” shooting.
Tarpinian-Jachym was among three
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