Mamdani says Trump agrees to grant visa to mom of Ghanaian teen killed in Bronx taking pictures

NEW YORK —

New York Metropolis Mayor Zohran Mamdani mentioned on Saturday in a social media publish 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 loss of life earlier this week.

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

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The teenager, Javits Frimpong, was on his technique 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 beneath investigation.

“The homicide of a kid is a ache no mother or father ought to must 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 received 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 within the Bronx from Ghana a yr in the past to be together 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 technique to college when he was shot, Torres wrote on X.

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“Our whole borough is mourning a younger man who ought to have had his complete future forward of him,” Torres mentioned. “Each youngster within the Bronx deserves to stroll to high school with out fearing for his or her life, and no mother or father ought to ever must 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 instructed reporters that a number of days earlier than the taking pictures he realized his son was being bullied in school.

“It was the principal who instructed 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 publish 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.