Heartbroken mom of slain NYC teen Javits Frimpong breaks silence: ‘I need justice for my child’

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Doris Adu Gyamfi was able to travel from Ghana to mourn with her family after he son, Javis Frimpong, was gunned down in the Bronx.

The devastated mother of 15-year-old shooting victim Javits Frimpong broke down in tears Wednesday as she spoke about her young son’s murder for the first time since being granted an emergency visa from Ghana.

“I need justice for my child,” Doris Adu Gyamfi sobbed at a press conference arranged by the Rev. Al Sharpton and the family’s attorney, Ben Crump, in Harlem. “I have only one child. I have only one child.”

Gyamfi, who was able to travel to the US after Mayor Zohran Mamdani lobbied President Trump to fast-track her visa, then dissolved into tears.

The moving event came just hours after police arrested 17-year-old Thierno Jalloh in the Oct. 29 murder of Frimpong as he walked to school near East 171st Street and Third Avenue in The Bronx.

The studious teen’s family said his father brought the boy to the Big Apple from Ghana last year so he could live the American dream, and he hoped to become a doctor after serving in the military.

“It’s very difficult for me today,” his sister, Millicent Frimpong, told reporters. “I don’t know how to start, and I’m not sure how I’m going to end. I’m going to read some words from my brother’s journal, how proud he was to be in the United States.

“He wanted to be a physician … as soon as he finished high school he wanted to be in the military. He has three siblings who served in the Army. One is still serving. I’m a veteran.”

She then read his words: “I am from Ghana. My family are my mother Doris, my father Thomas, my auntie Diana, my brothers Kenneth, Jeff, Richard, Anthony, and my sister Millicent.

“My friends are Lobo and Sumaya. School has been good since I came to the United States.”

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