Trump to grant visa to mother of teen killed in Bronx shooting, Mamdani says

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said on Saturday that President Donald Trump agreed to grant a visa to the mother of a teenager who was shot and killed in the Bronx on Thursday.

15-year-old Javits Frimpong, who moved from Ghana to live with his father roughly a year ago, was shot in the abdomen on Thursday morning while going to his school near Crotona Park. He died later that day at St. Barnabas Hospital, police said.

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