Seventeen-year-old arrested over fatal shooting of Ghanaian schoolboy in New York

A 17-year-old has been arrested for questioning nearly two weeks after 15-year-old Javits Frimpong was fatally shot while walking to school in New York. The case has drawn attention to concerns about bullying and youth violence as detectives continue to investigate.

Frimpong, who moved from Ghana about a year ago, was shot in the stomach on 29 October and later died in hospital. His father said he had reported being bullied, and that the school principal had contacted him about two students disturbing his son three days before the shooting; they were suspended. Police are also seeking other teenagers believed to have been involved, and the family has hired civil rights attorney Ben Crump.