WASHINGTON (7News) — For weeks, investigators have been searching high and low for the third and final suspect in a case that has rocked the DC region; the shooting death of 21-year-old congressional intern Eric Tarpinian-Jachym on June 30.
According to court records, authorities tracked down 18-year-old Naqwan Lucas, of the District of Columbia, on Wednesday night in Germantown, Maryland. Thursday afternoon, Lucas appeared in DC Superior Court on more than a dozen charges, including first-degree murder. He pleaded not guilty before Judge Dana Dayson. Judge Dayson held Lucas until a status hearing with his co-defendants was scheduled for November 7.
In a stunning turn of events, Naqwan Lucas was also charged in a second indictment on Thursday for the July 4 murder of 17-year-old Zoey Kelley, announced U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro. Authorities say Kelley was Lucas’s girlfriend…