A 17-year-old was arrested and charged on Wednesday with the murder of a 15-year-old boy who was fatally shot last month while walking to school in the Bronx.
The police said that the teenager, whose name was not publicly released because of his age, was taken into custody in the Bronx early Wednesday, nearly two weeks after the student, Javits Frimpong, was killed.
The teenager was also charged with manslaughter and criminal possession of a weapon, the police said. It was not yet clear whether the boys knew each other.
The death of Javits, who had immigrated from Ghana a year ago to join his father, a taxi driver, in the United States, shook the tightknit Ghanaian community in the Bronx and students at Dreamyard Preparatory School, where Javits was a sophomore.
His sister, Millicent Frimpong, said on Wednesday that Police Department detectives had alerted the boy’s father, Thomas Frimpong, of the arrest. But they did not yet know anything about the teenager who had been charged, she said.
When Mr. Frimpong received the news, he displayed little emotion, she said.
“I was hoping to see a smile on my dad’s face,” Ms. Frimpong, 33 said. “He did say, ‘Thank you, Lord,’” she said.
The family was scheduled to hold a news conference with the Rev. Al Sharpton at his National Action Network headquarters in Harlem.
After a personal appeal from Mayor Zohran Mamdani, President Trump approved a visa allowing Javits’s mother, Doris Adu Gyamfi, to travel to the United States from Ghana.
Nate Schweber, William K. Rashbaum and Chelsia Rose Marcius contributed reporting.
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