Mamdani says Trump will ‘immediately’ grant visa to Ghanaian mother of murdered Bronx teen

President Donald Trump has agreed to grant an immediate travel visa to the mother of Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old boy from Ghana who was shot and killed on his way to school in the Bronx earlier this week, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday.

“The murder of a child is a pain no parent should have to endure, let alone thousands of miles away,” Mamdani posted on

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment Saturday.

Frimpong was shot and killed around 9:30 a.m. Thursday near Crotona Park in the Bronx, according to police.

Responding officers found Frimpong with a gunshot wound to the abdomen and took him to St. Barnabas Hospital in their patrol car, where he was pronounced dead, police said.

Authorities still have not named or described a suspect or said what led to the shooting.

Frimpong’s father, Thomas Frimpong, told Gothamist that his son came to the United States from Ghana to live with him last year.

Groups representing the Ghanaian diaspora are demanding answers over Frimpong’s killing, as well as greater commitment from the city’s leaders.

The Ghanaian Diaspora Public Affairs Collective says that although the Bronx has been a haven for Ghanaians, other acts of violence have occurred against members of the diaspora in the borough.

An elderly Ghanaian husband and wife were beaten and robbed at gunpoint while waiting for a bus on Gun Hill Road just days before Frimpong was shot dead, the group said. And in January, a 53-year-old Ghanaian man was fatally stabbed while walking to work, the group said.

“These are separate incidents, and there is no established evidence that they are linked to or motivated by the Ghanaian identity of the victims,” the group said in a statement. “Together, however, they have intensified concerns about the safety of Ghanaian families who have built lives in the Bronx. GHPAC is calling on city leaders to engage directly with the community, listen to their concerns, and ensure victims and their families have access to appropriate support.

Sam Raskin, a spokesman for Mamdani, said the mayor called the Frimpongs on Friday. Raskin also said the Office of Community Safety funded and coordinated the deployment of grief counselors, outreach specialists and other resources to the neighborhood.

“It’s a devastation that not only affects this family,” Mamdani said in an interview posted Friday on social media. “It devastates a community. This child has only been here for a year. It devastates a diaspora; it devastates an entire neighborhood.”

This story has been updated with new information.