Mother of Fatally Shot Ghanaian Teen Heads to US After Trump Grants Visa
The Facts
- The mother of 15-year-old Ghanaian Javits Frimpong, fatally shot on his way to school in the Bronx, departed Ghana for the U.S. on Wednesday, six days after his killing. "I want justice for my son, that is all," Doris Adu Gyamfi told officials at the airport.
- Her trip followed an intervention by New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who said that President Donald Trump had agreed during a phone call to immediately grant Adu Gyamfi a visa, allowing her to attend her son's funeral in New York, with preparations underway.
- Frimpong was shot shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Oct. 29 while walking to DreamYard Preparatory School in the Bronx's Claremont neighborhood. He was taken to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. He had moved from Ghana a year earlier.
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The Spin
Democratic narrative
A child walking to school should never be hunted down, and America's failure to rein in the flood of guns on city streets makes such horrors possible. Warning signs about bullying were raised with school officials, yet withholding records only deepens the betrayal. Real justice demands stronger gun laws, full accountability and schools that actively protect immigrant students instead of turning a blind eye to threats against their safety.
Republican narrative
Compassion beat politics here — one phone call, and a grieving mother received the help bureaucracy would normally bury for months. Blaming guns instead of confronting violent teens roaming free dodges the real failure of law enforcement, and a hardworking immigrant family paid the ultimate price. Catching the killers, holding them accountable and restoring public safety, not recycling gun-control talking points, is what delivers justice.
