Teen boy from Ghana chased and fatally shot on way to school in New York City – The Guardian

Teen boy from Ghana chased and fatally shot on way to school in New York City  The Guardian

Javits Frimpong, 15, was being bullied at school before he was shot and killed in the Bronx on Thursday, his father says A teenage boy from Ghana was chased down and fatally shot Thursday morning on his way to school in the Bronx. The New York City police department (NYPD) received a report on Thursday morning about a shooting near Crotona Park in the Bronx, a police spokesperson said on Friday. At about 9.24am, responding officers found Javits Frimpong, 15, with a gunshot wound to his stomach. Javits was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Police have not made any arrests and an investigation is ongoing as authorities search for three teenage boys in connection to the shooting.

Surveillance footage reportedly captured Javits running, as a person wearing all black trailed behind. Another angle of video footage appeared to show masked individuals in dark clothing fleeing the site of the shooting. The deadly attack has rocked the Bronx’s Claremont neighborhood and the city’s west African community. “I lost him,” the teenager’s father, Thomas Frimpong, told reporters on Thursday. “I don’t know what to do now.” The fatal shooting came as Javits marked one year of being in New York after arriving from Ghana, Frimpong said. Frimpong described his son as “clever” and “quiet”. Javits was being