MOG Music at the memorial site of Javits Frimpong
Award-Winning Ghanaian Gospel Minister, MOG Music, has paid a visit to the site where Javits Frimpong fell after sustaining gunshot wounds from unknown assailants, leading to his sudden demise.
Following the death of 15-year-old Javits, a memorial site has been created in his honour at the spot where he died, with candles, flowers, tributes and his portrait placed together in one barricaded spot so people don’t walk over it, as well as to allow mourners to pay their respects.
MOG Music was seen on his knees praying at the memorial site. In a post on Instagram, he wrote, “Today I went to New York to pay my respect to the young Santa who passed away by the hands of another man. Javits Frimpong rest well in the hands of God almighty.”
Javits Badu Nkansah Frimpong was fatally shot in the abdomen shortly before 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, October 29, 2026, near East 171st Street and Crotona Place in the Claremont neighbourhood of the Bronx, while walking to school. He was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital where he was pronounced dead.
The teenager had relocated to the United States about a year ago to join his father, Thomas Frimpong, 60, and was a 10th-grade student at Dream Yard Preparatory School. He was a former student of Adisadel College in Cape Coast.
According to the New York Police Department (NYPD), the suspects are three teenagers, believed to be aged between 16 and 18, who were seen fleeing the scene in black clothing and surgical masks. Surveillance footage showed Frimpong being chased before he collapsed. No arrests had been made as of Monday, November 2.
His father has told investigators that his son had complained about being bullied at school, and that two students had been suspended three days before the shooting.
Police say they have not yet established a link between the alleged bullying and the killing, and are investigating multiple motives, including bullying, robbery and mistaken identity.
BY Prince Fiifi Yorke