Mamdani says Trump agrees to grant visa to mother of Ghanian teen killed in Bronx shooting

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New York (AP) — New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday in a social media post that after talking to President Donald Trump, he has agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot to death earlier this week.

The White House did not immediately respond to an email from The Associated Press confirming the administration would be issuing the visa.

The teen, Javits Frimpong, was on his way to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a.m. Thursday when he was shot in the abdomen, New York City police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital later that day. No arrests have yet been made, and the killing remains under investigation.

“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.”

“All of New York City is mourning this tragedy,” he said.

Frimpong arrived in the Bronx from Ghana a year ago to be with his father and begin a new life in the United States, according to US Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx.

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Frimpong was on his way to school when he was shot, Torres wrote on X.

“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 teen who spent much of his time on his cellphone. He told reporters that several days before the shooting he learned 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 OK.’ ”

Foreign Minister Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa said in a post on X that Ghanaian officials in New York are coordinating with local authorities and that the foreign ministry “will work tirelessly with U.S. authorities to ensure justice is secured.”

Trump has clamped down on immigration during his second term, including suspending the processing of visas from 75 countries .

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纽约（美联社）——纽约市市长佐兰·马姆达尼周六在社交媒体上发帖称，在与唐纳德·特朗普总统交谈后，他已同意向一名来自加纳的15岁移民的母亲发放签证，这名移民本周早些时候被枪杀。

白宫尚未回复美联社的电子邮件，该邮件确认政府是否会签发签证。

纽约市警方称，周四上午9点半前不久，少年贾维茨·弗林蓬在布朗克斯区上学途中腹部中枪。他当天晚些时候在医院被宣布死亡。目前尚未有人被捕，案件仍在调查中。

“任何父母都不应该承受失去孩子的痛苦，更何况是远隔千里的父母，”马姆达尼周六在X网站上写道。“贾维茨·弗林蓬的母亲理应与儿子当面告别。我刚刚和特朗普总统通了电话，他已同意立即给她发放签证。”

他说：“整个纽约市都在为这场悲剧哀悼。”

据布朗克斯区民主党众议员里奇·托雷斯称，弗林蓬一年前从加纳来到布朗克斯，与父亲团聚，并在美国开始新生活。

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托雷斯在 X 上写道，弗林蓬在上学途中被枪击。

托雷斯说：“我们整个布朗克斯区都在哀悼这位本应拥有美好未来的年轻人。布朗克斯的每个孩子都应该能够安心地步行上学，不必担心生命安全，任何父母都不应该承受贾维茨的父亲托马斯现在正在承受的痛苦。”

托马斯·弗林蓬形容他的儿子是个安静的青少年，大部分时间都花在手机上。他告诉记者，枪击案发生前几天，他得知儿子在学校遭到霸凌。

“是校长告诉我的，”托马斯·弗林蓬说。“他说有两个男生骚扰我儿子，所以他把那两个男生停学了。我儿子在学校。他是无辜的，所以我给他打了电话。我和儿子聊了聊，他说‘爸爸，我没事。’”

外交部长萨姆·奥库泽托·阿布拉夸在X网站上发帖称，加纳驻纽约官员正在与当地政府协调，外交部“将与美国当局不懈努力，以确保正义得到伸张”。

特朗普在其第二个任期内加强了移民管制，包括暂停处理来自 75 个国家的签证申请。