The 12-year-old son of a retired NYPD sergeant happily shook his neighbor’s hand before hopping on his bike to pedal to the bodega where he was fatally shot — the innocent victim of a possible gang beef, the resident and law-enforcement sources said Sunday.
Tragic Jacob Freytes was struck by a stray bullet during the senseless shootout in a gang-infested area of The Bronx on Saturday, leaving his family and neighbors distraught over the loss of the bubbly boy.
“His mother is destroyed, completely destroyed,’’ weeping family friend Carmen Uriza said Sunday.
Jacob’s grieving 12-year-old pal Marlyn Rosario lamented, “ He was at the wrong place at the wrong time.”
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