{"id":306035,"date":"2026-07-26T18:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306035\/"},"modified":"2026-07-26T18:08:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-26T18:08:55","slug":"nyc-man-busted-in-horrific-shooting-that-killed-innocent-12-year-old-son-of-retired-finest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306035\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC man busted in\u00a0horrific shooting that killed innocent 12-year-old son of retired Finest"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 45-year-old Bronx\u00a0 man has been charged with murder in the senseless fatal shooting of the\u00a012-year-old\u00a0son of a retired Finest\u00a0<\/a>outside a Bronx bodega Saturday.<\/p>\n

William Ferrer was busted outside his home Sunday in the\u00a0slaying of innocent young Jacob Freytes, who biked to a Mount Eden bodega<\/a> to buy a ball when he was caught in the crossfire of what police believe may have been a gang-related shooting.<\/p>\n

William Ferrer, 45, was charged with murder in the shooting of an innocent 12-year-old outside of a Bronx bodega Saturday. Obtained by NY Post<\/p>\n

Jacob Freytes, 12, was killed after stopping by the bodega to buy a ball. Facbook\/El Nene Kai<\/p>\n

The boy is the son of retired Bronx Detective Sgt. Jesus Freytes<\/a>, who worked in the same 44th Precinct.<\/p>\n

\u201cJacob was an innocent bystander on his bike when he was taken from his family yesterday in an act of senseless gun violence<\/a>,\u201d Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch said\u00a0on X.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cNo arrest can ever ease the pain of this unimaginable loss, but the NYPD will continue to do everything I our power to seek justice for Jacob,\u201d the top cop said.<\/p>\n

Jacob was caught in the middle of a suspected gang-related shooting during his trip to the bodega. United Bodegas of America<\/p>\n

Surveillance footage of Jacob running into the store after getting shot in the shoulder. United Bodegas of America<\/p>\n

The shooting took place directly outside of a Mount Eden bodega. Tomas E. Gaston for NY Post<\/p>\n

Ferrer is charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter, second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault and illegal weapons possession, Tisch said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old Bronx\u00a0 man has been charged with murder in the senseless fatal shooting of the\u00a012-year-old\u00a0son of a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3283,128,57,9,24,63,103,3980,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-306035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-arrests","tag-bronx","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-shootings","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}