Bronx community remembers Jacob Freytes as mom pushes life-in-prison proposal

Dozens lined up in The Bronx Saturday for the viewing of 12-year-old Jacob Freytes, exactly a week after he was shot and killed while biking to a bodega to buy a ball in Mount Eden.

Loved ones are calling for justice following the arrest of a suspect, and the boy’s mother is calling for a new law.

“I got kids of my own. It hits home,” a mourner at the Castle Hill Funeral Home in Parkchester told NBC New York…

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