“I said Eric, you didn’t die in vain. They’re going to make D.C. safe, Eric. You didn’t die in vain.”
“I said Eric, you didn’t die in vain. They’re going to make D.C. safe, Eric. You didn’t die in vain.”
The mother of a Massachusetts college student who was killed in a D.C. shooting in June praised President Donald Trump’s new plan to take over the local police and deploy the military to reduce crime.
Tamara Tarpinian-Jachym, mother of Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, heard Trump mention her son, a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst who was a congressional intern.
Eric, who was killed about a mile away from the White House, was among the victims of violent crime in Washington D.C. that Trump cited, including others connected to the federal government.
The Granby mother told WHDH that Eric’s ashes are near her TV, where she watched Trump declare a formal public safety emergency in the nation’s capitol.
“I said Eric, you didn’t die in vain,” Tamara Tarpinian-Jachym told the news station through tears.
