New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said that President Donald Trump has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a teenage immigrant from Ghana who was shot and killed last week in the Bronx.
« The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away, » Mamdani wrote Saturday on X. « Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person. I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately. »
Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House for comment.
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Javits Frimpong, 15, was heading to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Thursday when he was shot in the abdomen, according to New York City Police.
He was rushed to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead
No arrests have been made in connection with the shooting. The incident remains under investigation.
« All of New York City is mourning this tragedy, » the mayor said.
Frimpong arrived in the Bronx from Ghana a year ago to stay with his father and begin a new life in the U.S., according to U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y.
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« Our entire borough is mourning a young man who should have had his whole future ahead of him, » Torres said. « Every child in the Bronx deserves to walk to school without fearing for their life, and no parent should ever have to endure what Javits’s father, Thomas, is enduring now. »
Thomas Frimpong described his son as a quiet teenager. He told reporters that learned just days before the shooting that his son was being bullied at school.
« It was the principal who told me, » Thomas Frimpong said. « He said two guys are disturbing my son so he has suspended the two guys. My son is at school. He’s innocent, so I call him. I talk with my son, he said ‘dad, I’m okay.' »
Ghanaian Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa said on X that Ghanaian officials in New York are coordinating with local authorities, adding that the foreign ministry « will work tirelessly with U.S. authorities to ensure justice is secured. »
He also said he welcomes Mamdani’s intervention and Trump’s « timely decision » to grant a visa to the victim’s mother.
« Madam Doris Adu Gyamfi’s pain as a loving mother is unimaginable and indeed everything must be done to ensure she is present to pay her respects, » the foreign minister said.
The Ghanaian government « will take care of the full cost of Madam Adu Gyamfi’s travels and also stands ready to contribute towards a dignifying funeral, » he added.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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