A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of Javits Frimpong, the 15-year-old Bronx kid who was gunned down while walking to school, sources said Wednesday.
The teen suspect was busted by the NYPD Violent Crimes Task Force — and charges are pending, the sources said.
Javits, a Ghanaian immigrant, was fatally shot in the stomach on Oct. 29 near East 171st Street and Third Avenue while on his way to school, cops said.
Harrowing video shows the gravely wounded teen running for his life before he collapsed and later died.
His father, Thomas Frimpong, said his “very quiet” son had been bullied and believes that it had something to do with his death.
The principal had called just two days before the murder to tell him about the bullying, he said.
“He said two boys were fighting with my son, and the two boys got suspended,” the dad recounted.
NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said last week that the alleged bullying was “one aspect that we’re looking at, as well as some others.”
Kenny said the murdered teen was focused on his education.
“He would come home, do his homework, and then he would jump on his phone periodically,” Kenny said. “But he was very, very into his schoolwork.”
“As of right now, all indications are that he was trying to live the American dream,” the chief added. “He was trying to get ahead by going to school. But as of right now, we have nothing in our investigation that indicates he was involved in any gang activity. Seems like he was just a very good kid.”
President Donald Trump agreed to grant a visa to Javits’ mom, allowing her to travel from Ghana to NYC to mourn her son in person, after Mayor Zohran Mamdani spoke with him by phone.
