‘Catch the bastards!’ grandma of tot begs

The grandmother of tragic toddler Davell Gardner made an anguished plea on Monday to end the scourge of gun violence — and ensure the “bastards” responsible for the 1-year-old’s death can never hurt anyone else.

“These a--holes need to stop shooting children, stop shooting innocent bystanders,” Samantha Gardner told The Post at her Bedford-Stuyvesant home. “This is only a baby, 1 year old, that didn’t even get a chance to start his life.

“I hope they catch the bastards and put them under the jail cell.”

The matriarch called for an end to black-on-black violence.

“They [are] talking about ‘Black Lives Matter,’ but black lives don’t matter because black people [are] trying to kill other black people. It needs to stop,” she said.

The grandma wasn’t in attendance at the nearby barbecue that took a nightmarish turn late Sunday as two gunmen opened fire, wounding three adult men and killing Davell.

She got the news in a latenight phone call from his grief-wracked mom.

“She was hysterical,” recalled Gardner. “She kept screaming, ‘Junior got shot! Junior got shot!’ ”

The tot fought for his life at a hospital, but succumbed to his wounds at around 2:30 a.m. Monday.

“After he passed, I asked to see him,” said Gardner. “He was shot in his little stomach.”

Mayor de Blasio vowed Monday to bring Davell’s killer to justice — as he has vowed for weeks to curb the summer’s citywide surge in shootings.

The boy’s father, Davell Sr., pleaded to The Post, “Stop the gun violence. An innocent soul was taken. I just want those people to pay for what they did.”

Samantha Gardner said of the city’s shooting spree, “This summer, there have been a lot of shootings. But this hits home. This is my blood.”