‘I started to cry’: mother of slain UMass student, DC intern reacts to National Guard shooting

The mother of Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, the 21-year-old UMass student and DC intern gunned down this summer, has been watching the coverage of two national guardsmen shot in a targeted attack this week.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that one of the guardsmen had died from her injuries. Another remains in critical condition.

Trump cited Tarpinian-Jachym’s death and other violent crimes when deploying the National Guard across the city this summer.

Tamara Tarpinian-Jachym got a notification about the shooting on her phone on Wednesday. She told Boston 25 the shooting was within a mile of where her son was shot four times and killed on a city sidewalk…

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