The 12-year-old son of a New York City police sergeant was fatally shot outside a Bronx grocery store on Saturday evening, with CCTV footage capturing the young boy running back inside the shop for help.
Jacob Freytes was struck by stray gunfire during a sudden brawl involving six men outside Wanda Deli Grocery on Elliot Place near the Grand Concourse at approximately 5.30 p.m. Surveillance video released by the United Bodegas Association showed the child paying at the till and mounting his bicycle just moments before the violence erupted.