Trump agrees to grant visa to mother of boy killed in Bronx shooting, Mayor Mamdani says

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani says that, after a phone call with US President Donald Trump, the mother of a 15-year-old Ghanaian boy shot dead in the Bronx will be granted a visa.

In a post on X on Saturday, Mamdani wrote that he had spoken with Trump about Javits Frimpong, whose mother is seeking to travel to New York to say goodbye to her son.

The mayor wrote that President Trump “has agreed to grant her visa immediately”.

“The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone from thousands of miles away,” Mamdani wrote in the post.

CCTV footage that captured the last moments of Frimpong’s life showed him being chased by three other teens on Thursday morning as he was on his way to school. He was shot in his abdomen and died the same day in hospital.

Thousands of people attended vigils held for the teenager across the city.

The 15-year-old had told his father he was bullied at school. His father, Thomas Frimpong, called on the police to help him “find justice for my son”.

Police have said they are investigating, but no arrests have been made yet.

Javits’s parents moved him to the US a year ago in the hopes of providing him a better life.

Congressman Richie Torres, who represents the Bronx, wrote on social media that “our entire borough is mourning a young man who should have had his whole future ahead of him.”

Ghanaian Foreign Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa stated on social media that Ghanaian officials are “coordinating with local authorities” and helping Javits’s mother with her visa application. Visa applications from a number of African countries have been severely limited under the Trump administration.