‘I have to go through this all over again,’ sez ma whose 2nd son slain

A man fatally shot and then run over in a heinous Bronx slaying was his mother’s second son to be killed by gun violence, the devastated woman said Sunday.

“I can’t wrap my head around any of this,” Toni Hinton told the Daily News. “It’s very hurtful, I have to go through this all over again.”

Cortez Hinton, 33 (photo), was walking along Kelly St. near Westchester Ave. in Foxhurst around 8:10 a.m. Saturday when a gunman in a gold-and-tan sedan opened fire, police said.

Hinton was shot in the torso and groin, according to cops.

As the wounded man lay on the ground, the sedan whipped around and ran him over before taking off.

Medics responding to the scene discovered Hinton shot and suffering from severe head and body trauma, police said.

He was rushed to Lincoln Hospital, where he fought for his life for about three hours before he died.

Hinton’s wife sobbed and screamed at the scene of the shooting as a friend tried to console her.

“Oh, my God! Oh, my God!” the spouse wailed.

The day after her son’s death, Toni Hinton struggled to make sense of the monstrous slaying.

“It’s sad — bright and early In the morning, who does that? Who kills someone early in the morning? He shouldn’t have been gunned down,” said the mother, who lives in North Carolina.

The victim grew up in Harlem and spent most of his life there, but more recently lived in Foxhurst with his wife.

“I didn’t have concerns about him being over there. I just told him, be careful everywhere you go, whether ... he’s in Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan — just be careful,” said the distraught mom. “Even when I go outside, I look around and stay alert.”

Hinton’s brother, Clinton Hinton, 25, was fatally shot alongside another man in North Carolina in 2010.

“I really don’t know what happened. This happened in 2010 and the guy is now locked up. He was just at the wrong place at the wrong time,” said Toni Hinton. “I still have to deal with that pain and now I gotta deal with this all over again.”

The broken mother is left with one daughter and one son.

“For me as the mother, it’s very shocking. This is my second son that’s gone,” she said.

Cortez Hinton, her second-oldest child, had been married for about six years. He did not have any children of his own, but spent time with his nieces and nephews.

“He liked to sing, he liked to smile. He was very bubbly — always willing to help somebody,” she said. “He was doing good. He was working for a cable company.”

The victim had nine prior arrests in the city, ranging from criminal possession of a weapon to burglary, according to police.

“I don’t feel he was on someone’s hit list. He may have been targeted, but why do people do what they do?” she asked.

“I don’t think someone is plotting, waiting for him to come out [in] broad daylight and shoot him.”

“He’s not gonna stand out there in broad daylight if he had enemies,” the grieving mother added. “I don’t think he knew of any enemies.”

Police are searching for the shooter, while Hinton’s mother plans a trip to New York to arrange her son’s funeral.

“You’re not God, he didn’t tell you to take someone’s life,” she said. “You not supposed to take someone’s life like that.”