By Ike Mgbatogu
Staff Writer
Onumba.com,USA ———- Young Javits Frimpong pleaded with his dad to switch him to another school because schoolmates were bullying him.
But the father —– who is a taxi driver —- said “no.”
“I told him that transferring was too much work.”
It is sometimes.
But sad to say, Javit’s father ——– Thomas Frimpong ——– will soon realize that planning a funeral is vastly more work and time-consuming than switching his son’s schools.
This is a tragedy of epic proportion.
“A few days before he died, he begged me to switch schools,” said Mr. Frimpong.
It never happened.
Young Javits, 15, was shot in the abdomen on Oct. 29, reportedly by three teenage boys ages 16 to 18 in the Claremont neighborhood of Bronx, New York as he walked to school.
The fatal shooting took place near East 171st street and Crotona Place roughly at 9:30am.
Police officers rushed him to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries.
Reportedly, a surveillance camera in the area captured image of Javits collapsing after about a block of being chased by another teenager.
Police are actively searching for three male suspects clad in black clothing and surgical masks.
This heartbreaking murder lays bare the deadly cost of gun violence among young people in a country consumed by gun culture.
“It’s not easy,” a deeply distraught Frimpong told reporters.
“I’m here with him alone. I’m here with him alone. Here just one year. He just came from Africa [Ghana] just one year ago.”
Mr. Frimpong said that his son had repeatedly reported being bullied at his school —– Dreamyard Preparatory School.
“Dad, any time I am going to lunch, that guy keep on bulling me,” he told his father.
But he dismissed it, saying,”At first, I thought it was normal kid stuff.”
Still, he went and filed a formal complaint with the school administrators concerning the bullying.
“Like three days ago, it was the principal who told me, who called me. He said two guys are disturbing my son, so he has suspended the two boys,” said Mr. Frimpong.
Frimpong, 60, suspects his son was targeted and killed by the suspended boys seeking payback for getting them reported.
He told reporters that his son “was scared he would run into those kids on his way to school.”
Tragically, he did.
“He’s my everything.”
He said that his son wanted to become a doctor.
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