2 Teens Arrested for Murder of DC Congressional Intern

“Eric didn’t deserve to be gunned down, and the system failed him — the system that felt that juveniles needed to be coddled. And it’s bad enough to be gunned down on any street, but to be gunned down in our nation’s capital is an outrage,” Pirro said.

“The DC Council thinks that these kids need to be protected. They don’t need to be protected. They need to be made accountable, and we need to be protected… This killing underscores why we need the authority to prosecute these younger kids, because they’re not kids, they’re criminals.”

DC Mayor Muriel Bowswer, a Democrat, appeared alongside the US attorney and endorsed throwing the book at the teens, who allegedly fled the shooting in a stolen car.

“I would agree with [Pirro] that cold-blooded murder qualifies as a crime that should have a 17 year old considered as an adult,” said Bowser, who this week said she welcomes an extended federal surge in DC — despite many fellow Democrats slamming Trump’s intervention.

Pirro said in her own remarks that she wants Congress to repeal locally ratified laws that stripped the power to prosecute minors from the US Attorney’s Office — giving it instead to the elected DC attorney general — and that let judges set aside the prison sentences of people under age 24 who commit crimes.

“I am advocating, and have advocated for jurisdiction over juveniles… They need to be brought into the criminal court so that we can prosecute them, because if we do, we can prevent the murder that happened here based upon the histories of these two and the third individual that I cannot talk about,” Pirro said.

“We’re going to need Congress to change the law. And I believe that if there’s any case that calls for it, it is this case that makes it clear that these young punks who are on the street with guns, shooting at each other, killing innocent people, they need to be brought into my system and not in the family court system for rehabilitation, because they’ve been in that system more than once, and I don’t think they’ve been rehabilitated.”