{"id":307248,"date":"2026-07-28T01:05:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307248\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T01:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T01:05:40","slug":"news-12-bronx-nypd-arrests-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-12-year-old-bronx-boy-jacob-freytes-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/307248\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Bronx | Nypd Arrests Suspect In Fatal Shooting Of 12 Year Old Bronx Boy Jacob Freytes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">A 45-year-old man was charged in connection with the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy in Mount Eden, according to NYPD.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Authorities say William Ferrer was arrested Sunday morning after a shooting that killed <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/authorities-identify-12-year-old-boy-slain-in-mount-eden-bodega-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Freytes<\/a> and wounded two other men near Elliot Place and Walton Avenue on Saturday just before 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ferrer was escorted out of the 44th Precinct in handcuffs Sunday afternoon and placed into an unmarked police vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Surveillance video shows an argument on the street moments before gunfire erupted. Police say Freytes was a bystander who was riding his bike through the neighborhood when he stopped at a nearby bodega to buy a ball and was shot.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Neighbor Alex Peralta, who lives near the bodega, said he heard the gunfire from his apartment.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI heard two gunshots go off,\u201d Peralta said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">He added that he initially thought the sounds were fireworks.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cI look outside and see people running in the opposite directions, then I see people getting into their cars driving away, so I was like, &#8216;OK, definitely gunshots,&#8217; unfortunately,\u201d Peralta said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Police say the gun used <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/12-year-old-boy-killed-2-men-injured-in-mount-eden-shooting\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">in the shooting<\/a> was illegal.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The shooting sparked renewed calls for tougher penalties for people who possess illegal firearms.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Fernando Mateo, of United Bodegas of America, called on city and state leaders to increase penalties.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">&#8220;Where is Mamdani? Where is the governor? When are they going to come out and say, &#8216;if you get caught with an illegal gun in New York City, you\u2019re going to do three to five years mandatory?&#8217; That\u2019s what we need,\u201d Mateo said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his heart breaks for Jacob\u2019s family and added that this kind of violence cannot become normal.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson said she is heartbroken for the family, writing, \u201cWe must do better.\u201d<br data-rich-text-line-break=\"true\"\/>Online court records also show Ferrer was arrested in 2013 on drug trafficking charges in a case involving a Bronx day care.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Ferrer is charged with second-degree murder, first-degree manslaughter and several other counts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 45-year-old man was charged in connection with the shooting death of a 12-year-old boy in Mount Eden,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306231,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-307248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/307248","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=307248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}