{"id":47470,"date":"2026-04-11T08:40:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47470"},"modified":"2026-04-11T08:40:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T08:40:07","slug":"washington-dc-teens-jailen-lucas-kelvin-thomas-match-dna-found-on-shell-casings-in-congressional-intern-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/?p=47470","title":{"rendered":"Washington DC teens Jailen Lucas Kelvin Thomas match DNA found on shell casings in Congressional intern death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content%2Fuploads%2Fsites%2F2%2F2026%2F04%2Fnewspress-collage-wf2610hao-1775896136715.jpg?quality%3D90%26strip%3Dall%261775881803\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft wp-block-nypost-editor-partner-article-links\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>DNA evidence has<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/10\/30\/us-news\/dc-murder-suspect-naqwan-lucas-charged-in-murder-of-congressional-intern-eric-tarpinian-jachym-and-teen-zoey-kelley\/\"> linked two of the teenagers<\/a> charged in the shooting death of a University of Massachusetts student who was working as a congressional intern in\u00a0Washington, DC,\u00a0last summer, prosecutors alleged<\/p>\n<p>Government attorneys told Washington, DC, Superior Court Judge Danya Dayson during a Friday status hearing that testing on shell casings recovered at the scene produced an <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/05\/us-news\/dc-us-attorney-jeanine-pirro-charges-two-with-murder-for-slaying-of-congressional-intern-in-june\/\">\u201coverwhelming statistical match\u201d to Jailen Lucas,<\/a> and that DNA also ties Kelvin Thomas to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The two suspects, who were both 17 at the time of the shooting, are charged as <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/09\/08\/us-news\/mugshots-of-capitol-hill-intern-eric-tarpinian-jachym-murder-suspects-revealed-as-manhunt-continues-for-third-suspect\/\">adults with first-degree murder <\/a>while armed in the killing of Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, of\u00a0Granby, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Two rounds of\u00a0DNA testing\u00a0have been completed, prosecutors said, and additional expert testimony is expected at trial on DNA analysis, ballistics and fingerprint evidence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/08\/us-news\/grieving-mother-of-slain-dc-intern-eric-tarpinian-jachym-speaks-out-as-crime-surges\/\">Tarpinian-Jachym,<\/a> a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was shot June 30, near the intersection of 7th and M Street NW in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He was spending the summer in Washington<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/08\/12\/us-news\/mother-of-slain-congressional-intern-praises-trumps-crackdown-on-crime-in-dc-things-will-change\/\"> as a congressional intern <\/a>for Rep. Ron Estes, a Republican\u00a0from Kansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Eric Tarpinian-Jachym, 21, was interning for Rep. Ron Estes, R-Kan. in Washington, DC, when he was shot on June 30 2025. <span class=\"credit\">via FOX 5<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>Testing on shell casings recovered at the scene produced an \u201coverwhelming statistical match\u201d to Jailen Lucas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"nyp-slideshow-modal-image wp-block-image aligncenter size-large\"><figcaption>DNA also ties Kelvin Thomas to the shooting.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Two rounds of\u00a0DNA testing\u00a0have been completed, prosecutors said, and additional expert testimony is expected at trial on DNA analysis, ballistics and fingerprint evidence.<\/p>\n<p>Tarpinian-Jachym, a rising senior at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, was shot June 30, near the intersection of 7th and M Street NW in Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He was spending the summer in Washington as a congressional intern for Rep. Ron Estes, a Republican\u00a0from Kansas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lucas and Thomas were arrested Sept. 5. On Oct. 31, a third suspect, identified as 18-year-old Naqwan Antonio Lucas of the District of Columbia, was\u00a0arrested in Montgomery Village\u00a0and also charged in Tarpinian-Jachym\u2019s murder.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0pretrial hearing\u00a0is scheduled for May 15. The trial is expected to begin in February. Tarpinian-Jachym\u2019s mother declined to comment when contacted by Fox News Digital.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/11\/us-news\/washington-dc-teens-jailen-lucas-kelvin-thomas-match-dna-found-on-shell-casings-in-congressional-intern-death\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DNA evidence has linked two of the teenagers charged in the shooting death of a University of Massachusetts student who was working as a congressional intern&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/47471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignnewstoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}