(L-R) NYPD Policer Officer Martinson Afari Yeboah and Frederick Afoakwah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nA rather tragic way to die; being killed by the bullet of a colleague cop while checking it out. This was the unfortunate end of rookie Bronx cop, Frederick Afoakwah who died Sunday after a gun which had been set by his friend who he was playing games with, accidentally went off and ended his life.<\/p>\n
Frederick Afoakwah who hails from Ghana was expected to be best man of Housing Bureau Officer Martinson Afari Yeboah whose wedding was three weeks after the tragic incident. He unfortunately however fired a bullet into his neck when he attempted \u2018inspecting\u2019 the gun which had been set on the table by his friend Yeboah in his (Afoakwah\u2019s) apartment. <\/p>\n
The shooting happened about 5:30 am Sunday shortly after the two had met to play video games as usual. Yeboah who lives on the same floor was off duty and joined his friend at his high-rise apartment on Mosholu Parkway near Jerome Avenue during a pre-dawn session of Fifa Soccer Sunday according to police sources and the victim\u2019s father.<\/p>\n
\u201cI came out and I saw my son laying on the floor\u2026There was blood all over the rug and the sofa,\u201d said Afoakwah\u2019s heartbroken father, Ransford Afoakwah, 55. \u201cHe wasn\u2019t speaking.\u201d<\/p>\n
He further explained that he died shortly after he was rushed to St. Barnabas Hospital.<\/p>\n
Not long before the gun went off, Ransford Afoakwah had urged his son to turn off the video game and go to bed because the family had plans to go to an early Easter mass, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI woke up and I saw them playing still and I said, \u2018Why don\u2019t you go to bed?\u201d he said. \u201cAfter that, I heard the noise from the gun pop.\u201d<\/p>\n
As his son bled profusely, he tried to perform CPR to no avail.<\/p>\n
Yeboah was taken into custody after the shooting. While at the precinct, he asked his uncle to go to the hospital to find out whether his best friend had survived.<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd then the uncle told him unfortunately he passed,\u201d Yeboah said. “He could not understand. He had to tell him six times before it sunk in.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThey are best of friends.\u201d said Joyce Yeboah, 54, Frederick Afoakwah\u2019s devastated aunt.<\/p>\n
Afoakwah, 21, lived with his parents and a cousin and attended Borough of Manhattan Community College. He started studying criminal justice, inspired by Yeboah\u2019s budding NYPD career.<\/p>\n
“He encouraged Fred to take that subject,\u201d Afoakwah\u2019s dad, Ransford Afoakwah, 54, said.<\/p>\n
Both families hail from Ghana and are tightly knit<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are family, one family,\u201d said Joyce Yeboah. \u201cTheir doors are always ajar…. [Martinson Yeboah\u2019s] mother is a Deaconess in our church.\u201d<\/p>\n
Afoakwah and Yeboah met when the former moved into the building with his family in 2013, and they\u2019ve been inseparable since. They shopped for clothes together, and attended the Church of Pentecost on 216th St. and Bronx Blvd. on Sundays and Wednesdays.<\/p>\n
Afoakwah\u2019s father said he\u2019s not angry at Yeboah.<\/p>\n
\u201cMartinson is a good guy, he\u2019s a respectful guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI don\u2019t see him ever talking to people, shouting or fighting \u2014 I never see it…. If someone is your enemy you\u2019re not going to ask them to be your best man.\u201d Afoakwah said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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(L-R) NYPD Policer Officer Martinson Afari Yeboah and Frederick Afoakwah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n