Exclusive | Boy, 6, whose dad was fatally shot before he was born, takes bullet to chest during Coney Island mass shooting: Has a hole in his chest

A 6-year-old boy whose dad was fatally shot before he was born took a bullet to the chest during a July 4 mass shooting on Coney Island — and can’t understand why someone would hurt him, his mom said Monday.The child was one of eight people, including four youngsters, wounded when gunfire shattered an annual family cookout filled with kids that began with “nothing but good vibes,” according to cops and the young victim’s mother, Ineisha Greene, 27. “My son just keeps saying that somebody shot him.But he’s only 6,” the Bronx mom told The Post by phone Monday.Gun violence is tragically not new to the family: The wounded boy never got to meet his father, who was shot and killed in The Bronx while Greene was pregnant with the boy in 2019, she said. Sunday’s violence in Brooklyn apparently stemmed from gang retaliation in the area, authorities have said.While the child’s injuries were miraculously non-life-threatening, he is still recovering alongside his wounded uncle, 14 — and in an apparent state of shock, according to his mom.“Right now, he is OK.

He still has damage to his lungs – he has bruises in his lungs,” Greene said of her little boy.“He has a hole in his chest and a hole on his side, on his wrist.

He doesn’t want to eat much.They bring him food, I buy him food.

He doesn’t want to eat, he’s not drinking anything.He’s up moving around.”The senseless shooting came as friends and relatives gathered for the Independence Day gathering in a gated area on West 30th Street and Surf Avenue. “Everybody was good still, music playing – fireworks still going on, kids around,” Greene said.Then around 10:30 p.m., the celebrations devolved into chaos when a gunman opened fire from behind the gate, according to cops and Greene.“[My son] came back with his plate, he came to sit down, and as he was sitting down, he just jumped up out of nowhere and was screaming like, ‘Ah, Ah!’ but he never once cried,” Greene said.

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