Eric Tarpinian-Jachym. – via Forastiere Family Funeral & Cremation

Two suspects have been arrested in the fatal shooting earlier this year of a 21-year-old congressional intern near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro and D.C. Police Chief Pamela A. Smith said Friday.

Officials have said Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, a college student who was in D.C. as an intern for Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas), was shot by a group of people who exited a car and opened fire in the Shaw neighborhood of Northwest Washington on the night of June 30. Tarpinian-Jachym and a woman who was injured were bystanders caught in a conflict between the shooters and a 16-year-old who was also injured, Smith has said.

Before Pirro and Smith announced the arrests at a news conference Thursday

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