'PLEASE STOP THIS!'

Dad’s plea after kids’ near-shooting

The father of the two Bronx children who were trampled and nearly killed last week in a sidewalk shooting as they walked to the bodega for candy begged on Monday for an end to the gun violence gripping the Big Apple.

“I saw it all live from my window,” the dad, who identified himself only as Christian, recalled in Spanish while clutching his 5-year-old son, also named Christian.

“The kids went to the bodega to buy sweets, and when the girl was leaving, she heard three shots. She ran after her little brother, and she went to seek safety in the bodega.”

“The guy kept shooting.” Speaking publicly about the incident for the first time, the father told reporters that he had watched helplessly on Thursday as Christian and Mia, 13, were nearly gunned down on Sheridan Avenue in the Claremont section, just steps from the family’s first-floor apartment.

The dad also decried the surge in shootings in the five boroughs.

“Please stop this wave of delinquency on our streets,” he said. “It’s a miracle my kids are alive. Thank God, but it could happen to any other child or parent.”

The elder Christian and his wife, Diana, said that although both of their children had miraculously escaped the harrowing incident without injury, they would be forever scarred.

“We’re traumatized,” the dad said. “My daughter can’t move her arm. The boy has bruises. They have trauma. They can’t sleep. They are nervous.”

He said little Christian was so shaken that he wouldn’t leave his father’s side.

“The boy sleeps on top of me. The girl sleeps by my side,” the father said. “I can’t even go to the bathroom. They are, ‘Papi, Papi, Papi.’ ”

Mia broke into tears as her parents spoke to reporters.

The siblings were headed to the store for candy at around 7 p.m. Thursday when at least a dozen gunshots rang out.

Shocking surveillance video shows a man fleeing the shooter and barreling into the kids, falling over them as he knocks them to the sidewalk. The gunman, wearing a black mask, catches up and opens fire on the man, with the children panicking and cowering just inches away.

The kids’ mother said the fleeing man “trampled over the kids.”

“They were coming back home,” she said. “The person ran and crashed into the kids, and even though the kids fell to the ground, they kept shooting.”

Their father, meanwhile, watched as Mia bravely clutched little Christian to protect him as the bullets flew.

The gunman shot the fleeing man in the back and legs before bolting on a scooter — and remained on the loose on Monday, according to police.

The shot man was taken to BronxCare Health System, where he underwent surgery on Friday, sources said. He was expected to survive his wounds, police said.

The callousness of the brazen shooting stunned even hardened locals.

“The immediate thing to do is get the police officers out of the cars and have them walk the beat,” said longtime resident Debrah Myers. “They are never normally out here.”

Parents Christian and Diana said they wanted everyone to know that their children had nothing to do with the people involved in the shooting.

“I want to be clear that my kids don’t know those people,” the dad said. “They don’t know who they are. We are an honest, hardworking family.”

Meanwhile, the two youngste

got an unexpected show of support over the weekend as the city rallied behind them. On Sunday, the family was a special guest of the Yankees and was on hand for the team’s 2-1 win over the Oakland Athletics. Images released by the team showed the family watching the Bronx Bombers from box seats at Yankee Stadium.

“On Thursday in The Bronx, two innocent children on their way to the candy store were caught in the crossfire of a violent attack perpetrated in broad daylight,” the team’s YES Network tweeted.

“Miraculously, neither child was physically harmed. And today, they are guests of the Yankees, who stand wi them.”