Update: 17-year-old arrested over loss of life of 15-year-old Ghanaian boy in US

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By Linda Ikeji
11 November 2026, 5:22 pm

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in reference to the homicide of Javits Frimpong, the 15-year-old Ghanaian child, who was gunned down in New York whereas strolling to high school.

The teen suspect was arrested by the NYPD Violent Crimes Task Force, and costs are pending, based on the New York Post.

Javits, a Ghanaian immigrant, was fatally shot within the abdomen on October 29 close to East 171st Street and Third Avenue whereas on his approach to faculty.

He was on his approach to DreamYard Preparatory School when he was shot.

Video obtained by the Daily News exhibits three attackers carrying hoods and surgical masks chasing Javits down the road. Javits and one of many attackers then briefly disappear out of body earlier than the attacker jogs again in the other way.

“All three gave chase,” NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny stated final week. “And these cowards shot him in the back. If their intention was to rob him, he dropped his backpack.”

The attackers picked up the shell casings, “so they knew exactly what they were doing,”
 Kenny stated.

Before the taking pictures, the killers had been hanging out in Crotona Park after which fled to Manhattan after the homicide, based on Kenny. Surveillance footage caught them leaping the turnstile on the Freeman St. station earlier than taking the No. 5 prepare.

Medics rushed Javits to St. Barnabas Hospital, the place he underwent surgical procedure and was initially believed to be in secure situation. But he died a short while later.

Javits’ father Thomas Frimprong informed NYPD detectives two fellow college students had lately been suspended for bullying his son. But Kenny stated it isn’t but clear if bullying performed a task within the homicide. “It’s one aspect we’re looking at,” Kenny stated, “as well as others.”

The day earlier than Javits died was the one-year anniversary of the beginning of his new life within the U.S. after emigrating from West Africa to affix his father residing within the Bronx.

“Yesterday, yesterday was his one year,” the grieving father informed The News. Javits dreamed of being a health care provider.

“I want to go really far with education because you will earn money,” Javits wrote in his diary, which his household shared with The News.

“I figured out that when you start to win, people start to hate you and they try to bring you down,” he wrote in one other entry.