Local mom who gifted retired NYPD cops innocent son the bike he rode before he was fatally shot rages at Mamdani

A local mom who gifted the 12-year-old son of a retired NYPD sergeant the bike he pedaled to the Bronx bodega where he was fatally shot slammed Mayor Zohran Mamdani for not cleaning up the gang-infested area.Tragic Jacob Freytes was struck by a stray bullet when a possible gangbanger opened fire at rivals by Wanda Deli Grocery at Elliott Place near Grand Concourse shortly before 5 p.m.on Saturday.Miledy Rosario, a Bronx mother of four, including a 12-year-old friend of Jacob’s, ripped Mamdani for not doing enough to curb gang violence in the Mount Eden nabe — especially the corner where the bubbly boy was gunned down.

“I feel that the mayor that’s celebrating in the parade right now should take better care of this block, because there’s a lot of gang members,” Rosario said, referring to Hizzoner walking in the Bronx’s Dominican parade on Sunday.“There’s a lot of gang members.This is not the first time this thing happened here.

This has been happening a lot of times.He [the mayor] should know that there is a lot of gangs on that block there, and they had to be a cleanup,” Rosario said.

“He’s talking about stopping violence.But it is still continuing.

And so if they don’t clean that block there, we’re gonna continue to see the same thing,” she added.“Before there was police on that corner.

But yesterday there was no one there.”Rosario also recalled Jacob’s gratitude when she gifted him a hand-me-down bicycle on Friday — the day before he rode it to his devastating death.“I bought a new bicycle for my daughter, and I asked him, ‘Hey, do you want [her’s]?’” she told The Post.“He said, ‘Oh, thank you so much.


I’m gonna talk to my mom.’ And they gave him permission to have the bicycle.… And, you know, he was really happy,” Rosario said.“I’m a mom of four kids, and I’m really scared.

This kid was just running around on a bicycle, and got shot.
Jacob didn’t deserve this.”The Mount Eden neighb...