{"id":306624,"date":"2026-07-27T15:29:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306624\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T15:29:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:29:44","slug":"these-damn-guns-man-45-charged-with-murder-in-bronx-shooting-of-retired-nypd-sergeants-12-year-old-son","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/306624\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;These damn guns&#8217;: Man, 45, charged with murder in Bronx shooting of retired NYPD sergeant&#8217;s 12-year-old son"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 A 45-year-old man faces murder and other charges after a 12-year-old boy\u2014the son of a retired NYPD sergeant\u2014was shot and killed while riding his bike outside a Bronx bodega on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>William Ferrer remained silent as police escorted him out of the 44th Precinct in handcuffs on Sunday afternoon. Ferrer, who reportedly has at least six prior arrests, was appearing before a judge Monday to answer to charges including second-degree murder and manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials, the victim, Jacob Freytes, was riding a bicycle to get a ball at a deli at 104 Elliot Pl. in Mount Eden when the shooting happened.<\/p>\n<p>Marlyn Rosario, his 12-year-old neighbor, said she lent him the bike shortly before the incident occurred. &#8220;I was like, since I&#8217;m not going to use the pedal bike, my mom offered him to use the other bike that I had,&#8221; Rosario said.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the young boy was an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire. &#8220;Family and parents are devastated and are living in unimaginable pain,&#8221; Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said. &#8220;These damn guns, these damn guns, these damn guns.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (1010 WINS) \u2014 A 45-year-old man faces murder and other charges after a 12-year-old boy\u2014the son&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,12026,9,24,63,103,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-306624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-mount-eden","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-nypd","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306624","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=306624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}