{"id":307234,"date":"2026-07-28T00:52:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:52:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307234\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T00:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T00:52:45","slug":"bronx-bp-responds-to-12-year-old-boy-fatally-shot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307234\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronx BP responds to 12-year-old boy fatally shot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Bronx neighborhood is grieving <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/07\/26\/fatal-bronx-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">the loss of a 12-year-old boy who was shot<\/a> while on his bike just steps away from his home over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video of the shooting in the Mount Eden neighborhood shows a group of men fighting in the crosswalk right outside a bodega.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Freytes can be seen in the video standing over his bike on the sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, William Ferrer, has pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>Memorials have been set up outside the bodega where he was killed and outside the building where he lived with his mother and two younger siblings.<\/p>\n<p>Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson joined NY1 political anchor Errol Louis on \u201cInside City Hall\u201d Monday to discuss the incident and more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur hearts are very heavy at losing 12-year-old Jacob,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJacob was an innocent victim taken far too soon from his family, and we denounce this in all forms,\u201d Gibson said. \u201cAnd we\u2019re sending love to his family and the community of Mount Eden.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tap the video player above to watch the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Bronx neighborhood is grieving the loss of a 12-year-old boy who was shot while on his bike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[378,25,128,377,379,9,24,12,63,380,129,131,130,27,200],"class_list":["post-307234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-app-inside-city-hall","tag-app-top-stories","tag-bronx","tag-inside-city-hall-segments","tag-inside-city-hall-shows","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-top-stories","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307234","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=307234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}