STRAY SHOT KILLS MOM

Slain getting food for her four kids

I bet you when we find out what happened it’s going to be nonsense. It’s always nonsense.

tioning witnesses and scouring the area for surveillance footage of the shooting.

“We believe she was an innocent bystander,” one police source said.

Rosario, who broke up with Diaz a few years ago but remained close with her and their kids, said that stretch of Boston Road is rife with gang activity.

For the last six years, he’s been trying to find a new apartment for the family in a safer neighborhood, he said.

“All they needed to do was put one police officer there,” Rosario said. “That is a hot corner — it has always been. This could have been avoided.”

Cops haven’t disclosed a motive but Rosario believes his one-time love died as collateral damage from a petty gang dispute.

“I bet you when we find out what happened it’s going to be nonsense,” he said angrily. “It’s always nonsense.”

He demanded the gunman surrender. “Give yourself up,” he fumed. “I want to see justice. I want him to pay for what he did.”

A $2,500 reward is being offered by Crime Stoppers for any information leading to an arrest in this case.

Diaz is the second innocent bystander to be killed by a stray bullet in just over a month, officials said.

On Nov. 30, gunman Fred Coleman blasted away at a rival outside the Pink Houses in East New York, Brooklyn, hitting 27-year-old Salaya Figueroa in the buttocks as she and her boyfriend sprinted for cover. Figueroa died of her wound at Brookdale University Hospital that night, cops said. Detectives caught up with Coleman a week later, charging him with murder. A second man involved in the shooting is still being sought.

Diaz was the fifth person to be murdered this year, officials said. At the same time last year, police had investigated four murders.

Shootings in the city are also up slightly for the year, from 16 this time last year to 17, cops said. Murders were down 5%, with 335 last year compared to 352 in 2015, officials said. And for the first time since reliable records were kept there were fewer than 1,000 shooting incidents last year. There were 998 shootings citywide last year, down 12% compared to the 1,138 incidents in 2015, according to NYPD stats.