Unnamed 17-year-old son of Congressman (murdered)

An unnamed 17-year-old high‑school senior — the son of a congressman/representative — who is murdered in a hate‑motivated attack (tied to a tree and pelted with rocks). Though never seen or named on screen, his violent death provides the emotional fulcrum for a grieving father's conflicted public posture and is invoked in the White House pressroom (by C.J.) to press the administration on hate‑crime penalties, shaping political argumentation and exposing private family tensions around sexual orientation.