New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that US President Donald Trump had agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old boy who was killed in a neighborhood in Bronx earlier this week.
Javits Frimpong moved to New York from Ghana last year to be with his father and begin a new life in the US, according to Representative Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx.
Frimpong was shot in the abdomen on Thursday morning on his way to school and later died in the hospital, according to New York City police.
There have been no arrests in the case so far, with police investigating the shooting.
Mamdani says he spoke to Trump
“I just got off the phone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa immediately,” Mamdani posted on X.
“The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away,” he wrote. “Javits Frimpong’s mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person.”
The killing led to an outpouring of grief in New York, with Torres writing, “Our entire borough is mourning a young man who should have had his whole future ahead of him.”
The White House is yet to respond to the news.
Teen was bullied in school, father says
Thomas Frimpong remembered his son as a quiet boy, and said he was bullied at school.
Ghana’s Foreign Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa thanked Mamdani and Trump in a post on X.
He said Ghanaian officials were coordinating with Javits Frimpong’s mother to assist her with the visa application process.
Source: www.dw.com
