{"id":321594,"date":"2026-08-14T20:56:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321594\/"},"modified":"2026-08-14T20:56:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T20:56:24","slug":"trump-embraces-teary-eyed-mom-of-12-year-old-boy-shot-dead-on-nyc-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/321594\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump embraces teary-eyed mom of 12-year-old boy shot dead on NYC street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump embraced the teary-eyed mother of 12-year-old Jacob Freytes \u2014 the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/07\/30\/us-news\/mom-of-12-year-old-killed-by-stray-bullet-in-the-bronx-says-city-has-only-gotten-safer-for-criminals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Bronx boy allegedly shot dead<\/a> by a career criminal last month \u2014 as he promised to get tougher on crime during a pro-police event on Long Island Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.58789063;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"40347468\" width=\"347\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/2088358787472044045-beautiful-impromptu-moment-137435594.jpg\" alt=\"President Trump embracing Migdalia Martinez and retired NYPD Sergeant Jesus Freytes, whose son Jacob was tragically killed.\" class=\"wp-image-40347468\"  \/>President Trump exits the stage in the middle of his speech to embrace Migdalia Martinez and retired NYPD Sergeant Jesus Freytes. Their 12-year-old son, Jacob, was tragically killed by a stray bullet in the Bronx. Karoline Leavitt\/X<\/p>\n<p>The president paused his speech at the Nassau County Police Academy in Garden City, to acknowledge Migdalia Martinez, whose son was fatally hit by a stray bullet outside a Bronx bodega in July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHorrible, horrible things. We\u2019re going after these sick people,\u201d Trump promised the crowd after the emotional moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Trump embraced the teary-eyed mother of 12-year-old Jacob Freytes \u2014 the Bronx boy allegedly shot dead by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321595,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[128,303,4542,57,9,24,63,129,131,130,58],"class_list":["post-321594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-bronx","tag-crime","tag-guns","tag-metro","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","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\/321594","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=321594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}