A tearful Tamara Tarpinian-Jachym said she is “shocked” at the gruesome details of her son’s murder in Washington, D.C., but grateful two suspects are now under arrest.

“We’re still processing it,” she told the Herald today, moments after U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and D.C. Police Chief Pamela Smith announced the arrests.

Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, a UMass Amherst college student working as an intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), was shot and killed the night of June 30. He was a bystander in a D.C. beef.

Pirro said today two 17 years olds are being charged as adults with first-degree murder while armed. Another suspect remains at large.

Tamara today thanks the Herald and columnist Howie Carr for keeping the pressure on to help solve the senseless slaying of her son, she told the Her

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