Posted on 07/03/2025 6:53:31 AM PDT by Red Badger
Denise @Likeshesays Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, of Granby, Massachusetts. was a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst majoring in finance with a minor in political science.
He was working for Rep. Ron Estes (R-Kansas).A college student from Massachusetts working as an intern on Capitol Hill.
He was fatally shot Monday night near the Walter E. Washington Convention Center downtown, and D.C. police said he was apparently an innocent bystander caught in a spray of bullets intended for someone else.
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Please pray for his family....
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7th and M is towards the north end of the Convention Center (which extends up to N). There is a metro stop there. That area is still sketchy, and it will remain so until some housing projects are torn down.
The neighborhood is Shaw, with Sirsum Corda just to the east. When I came to DC prior to the last ice age, Shaw and Sirsum Corda were strict no-go areas for middle class people of the white tribe, though some of the black middle class was still hanging on in Shaw (and good for them; I hope they all got house rich when the area started to turn). That is changing. Shaw is relatively large as DC neighborhoods go, so microhabitat is everything. The surrounding neighborhoods are what has now been rebranded the Atlas District (after the storied Atlas Theater), which is still a work in progress but which has come a long way; Eckington, also a work in progress but rapidly gentrifying; Le Droit Park, Columbia Heights, Dupont Circle, downtown and the Penn Quarter. Most of these areas are improving rapidly with residual problem spots here and there.
Shaw will continue to improve; it’s too close-in not to. Young people are flipping Shaw with each sale, and it’s a block by block story. As with anyplace in the city, situational awareness is essential.
The Government Finance Officers’ Association conference was wrapping up at the Convention Center yesterday. At the hour the shooting occurred, that should have cleared long before this incident. The Convention Center is big and boxy, and surrounding sidewalks can get pretty lonely when no events are in progress. The question becomes what was this young man doing there at that hour. It’s possible he had volunteered to help staff something at the conference and was still there late for the teardown. (Been there, done that, many times.) The metro center is right outside the building, so if that’s where he was, security cameras should have everything. If he had crossed the street, he had moved into much more dangerous territory. In any event, he was in the wrong place at the wrong time and caught a stray bullet.
The first rule of thumb in assessing any location is to eyeball the distance to the nearest housing project. There are too many Great Society criminal ranches there for any sane person to be wandering around that late at night. Close the housing projects and that area would fully gentrify very rapidly. Shaw starts to look good if your alternative is Urbana, Haymarket, and Woodbridge, which is where the scared of the city young people flee to find affordable first homes, which they usually buy before they appreciate the full implications of the commute.
The moral of the story, obviously, is to stay away from large gatherings of government finance officers
The new approach to crime is to keep the problem cizuns out in your neighborhood for you to suffer, while the masters of society remain guarded behind doors with chefs, maids, armed guards, and laundry service.
Hope you’re right, but even if they do if he’s of the coddled demographic the punishment will likely fall far short of the crime. And with DC being something like 86% of the protected demographic odds are that he is.
Don't bed your lambs with the wolves.
It’s misleading to call him an “Amherst student” when he was enrolled at the University of Massachusetts. That label is usually applied to students at Amherst College.
FIRING SQUADS!!
“...He was in the wrong place...”
I completely avoid those places...like DC, New york, Chicago etc.
Memphis, St. Louis, Houston..................
Chandra Levey is the first thing I thought of.
I remember seeing Jim Robinson on a news report on a Freep about her murder.
Lori Klausutis ! Joe Scarborough’s intern 🪦💀
I agree but the voters or non voters
had a voice in the matter. jmo
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right.
of course you don’t have to be a US citizen to vote in DC, so what else can you expect
REMIND US: HOW OLD WAS LAKEN RILEY???
most of the D voters in Massachusetts are rich academics and public sector workers, who, as you know, are treated very, very well by the taxpayers of this state.
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Sounds like a targeted hit. Did "The Deep State" just send a message to MAGA?
I’d never recover if I lost a child. I have a wayward one now and it is tearing the family apart, but to have one die, or be murdered, Oh JESUS please help those poor parents.
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