Update: 17-year-old arrested over death of 15-year-old Ghanaian boy in US

A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in connection with the murder of Javits Frimpong, the 15-year-old Ghanaian kid, who was gunned down in New York while walking to school. The teen suspect was arrested by the NYPD Violent Crimes Task Force, and charges are pending, according to the New York Post. Javits, a Ghanaian immigrant, was fatally shot in the stomach on October 29 near East 171st Street and Third Avenue while on his way to school. He was on his way to DreamYard Preparatory School when he was shot. Video obtained by the Daily News shows three attackers wearing hoods and surgical masks chasing Javits down the street. Javits and one of the attackers then briefly disappear out of frame before the attacker jogs back in the opposite direction. "All three gave chase," NYPD Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said last week. "And these cowards shot him in the back. If their intention was to rob him, he dropped his backpack."The attackers picked up the shell casings, "so they knew exactly what they were doing,"
 Kenny said. Before the shooting, the killers were hanging out in Crotona Park and then fled to Manhattan after the murder, according to Kenny. Surveillance footage caught them jumping the turnstile at the Freeman St. station before taking the No. 5 train. Medics rushed Javits to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he underwent surgery and was initially believed to be in stable condition. But he died a short time later. Javits' father Thomas Frimprong told NYPD detectives two fellow students had recently been suspended for bullying his son. But Kenny said it is not yet clear if bullying played a role in the murder. "It's one aspect we're looking at," Kenny said, "as well as others." The day before Javits died was the one-year anniversary of the start of his new life in the U.S. after emigrating from West Africa to join his father living in the Bronx. "Yesterday, yesterday was his one year," the grieving father told The News. Javits dreamed of being a doctor. "I want to go really far with education because you will earn money," Javits wrote in his diary, which his family shared with The News. "I figured out that when you start to win, people start to hate you and they try to bring you down," he wrote in another entry.

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