{"id":316702,"date":"2026-08-08T14:12:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:12:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316702\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T14:12:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T14:12:50","slug":"news-12-westchester-jacobs-law-proposed-after-12-year-old-killed-in-bronx-crossfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/316702\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Westchester | Jacobs Law Proposed After 12 Year Old Killed In Bronx Crossfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">An Orange County family is pushing to strengthen penalties for those who take a child&#8217;s life.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/mount-eden-community-mourns-12-year-old-boy-killed-in-stray-shooting-as-suspect-faces-murder-charge\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">family of Jacob Freytes<\/a> will gather outside the Bronx bodega where he was killed to call for &#8220;Jacob&#8217;s Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The legislation would create stricter consequences when an <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/bronx.news12.com\/nypd-arrests-suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-12-year-old-bronx-boy-jacob-freytes\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">adult recklessly kills a child.<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The 12-year-old boy was killed by <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\">crossfire in Mount Eden<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Orange County family is pushing to strengthen penalties for those who take a child&#8217;s life. The family&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":316326,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,9,24,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-316702","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\/316702","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=316702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/316702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/316326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=316702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=316702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}