Trump agrees to visa for mother of Ghanian teen killed in Bronx taking pictures – NBC New York

New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned on Saturday in a social media submit that after speaking to President Donald Trump, he has agreed to grant a visa to the mom of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to demise earlier this week.

The White Home didn’t instantly reply to an e mail from The Related Press confirming the administration could be issuing the visa.

The teenager, Javits Frimpong, was on his method to college in a Bronx neighborhood shortly earlier than 9:30 a.m. Thursday when he was shot within the stomach, New York Metropolis police mentioned. He was pronounced lifeless at a hospital later that day. No arrests have but been made, and the killing stays underneath investigation.

“The homicide of a kid is a ache no guardian ought to need to endure, not to mention from 1000’s of miles away,” Mamdani wrote Saturday on X. “Javits Frimpong’s mom deserves to say goodbye to her son in individual. I simply acquired off the telephone with President Trump and he has agreed to grant her visa instantly.”

“All of New York Metropolis is mourning this tragedy,” he mentioned.

Frimpong arrived in The Bronx from Ghana a yr in the past to be along with his father and start a brand new life in the USA, in line with U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from The Bronx.

Frimpong was on his method to college when he was shot, Torres wrote on X.

“Our total borough is mourning a younger man who ought to have had his complete future forward of him,” Torres mentioned. “Each baby in The Bronx deserves to stroll to high school with out fearing for his or her life, and no guardian ought to ever need to endure what Javits’s father, Thomas, is enduring now.”

Thomas Frimpong described his son as a quiet teen who spent a lot of his time on his cellphone. He informed reporters that a number of days earlier than the taking pictures he discovered his son was being bullied in school.

“It was the principal who informed me,” Thomas Frimpong mentioned. “He mentioned two guys are disturbing my son so he has suspended the 2 guys. My son is in school. He’s harmless, so I name him. I speak with my son, he mentioned ‘dad, I’m OK.’ ”

Overseas Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa mentioned in a submit on X that Ghanaian officers in New York are coordinating with native authorities and that the overseas ministry “will work tirelessly with U.S. authorities to make sure justice is secured.”

Trump has clamped down on immigration throughout his second time period, together with suspending the processing of visas from 75 nations.