Tarpinian-Jachym had reportedly been interning for around two months before he was killed. Representative Estes said in a statement: "I will remember his kind heart and how we always greeted anyone who entered our office with a cheerful smile.

Jachym, a 21-year-old congressional intern, was killed in a shooting Monday night near the Mount Vernon Square Metro station in Northwest D.C., police said.

Jachym, 21, was two months into his internship with Kansas Representative Ron Estes when he was caught in a spray of bullets on Capitol Hill