Mamdani Says Trump Agreed to Grant Visa to Mother of Ghanaian Teen Shot in Bronx

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed to grant a visa to the mother of Javits Frimpong, a 15-year-old immigrant from Ghana who was shot dead in the Bronx. Mamdani made the claim in a post on X after what he said was a phone call with Trump. He wrote that the boy's mother deserves to say goodbye to her son in person and that Trump agreed to grant the visa immediately. The White House had not immediately confirmed the visa, and outlets said they had asked it for comment.

New York City police said Frimpong was walking to school in a Bronx neighborhood shortly before 9:30 a.m. Thursday when he was shot in the abdomen. He was pronounced dead at a hospital later that day. No arrests have been made, and the killing remains under investigation. U.S. Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from the Bronx, said Frimpong came from Ghana a year ago to live with his father and start a new life in the United States.

Fox News, on the right, leads with Mamdani's claim and quotes his post and his statement that all of New York City is mourning. Its page puts the story in the context of the Trump-Mamdani relationship, opening with a clip of Vice President JD Vance discussing it and linking stories on a planned new Trump-Mamdani meeting and on Trump embracing the parents of another child killed in the Bronx. It says only that it contacted the White House. The Hindu, an alternative source, covers the same facts, adds that the White House did not respond to the Associated Press, and keeps to the shooting, the visa claim and Torres's remarks, with no political context. Both quote Mamdani and Torres and give the same police details. Left-leaning outlets had not reported this story at the time of writing, while the other two sources had.