Another child was hit by a bullet in the city — this one a heroic 15-year-old girl shot in the leg as she pushed a toddler in a baby carriage to safety.

Sarah Rivera was just hanging out in front of her apartment building on Kelly St. near Westchester Ave. in the Bronx on Saturday. Around 10:30 p.m., she heard the crack of gunfire. Three shots.

Several adults, including the father of a baby girl in harm’s way, scurried for cover. The tot is a stranger to Sarah, but the brave teen knew she had to act.

“Everybody started running, so I went to grab the carriage,” Sarah told the Daily News from Lincoln Hospital on Sunday. “As I pushed it, the bullet hit me.”

The slug pierced her right thigh.

“I thought that I was going to die,” she said. “I fell to the ground.”

No one else was hurt.

The unscathed baby’s grateful father tied his shirt around Sarah’s leg to stem the flow of blood until an ambulance arrived, witnesses said.

Sarah, who is in seventh grade at Middle School 302 in the Bronx and dreams of becoming a doctor, has no regrets.

“If I would never have gotten over there, the baby would have got shot,” she said.

“I was just screaming because I was in pain.”

Doctors expect Sarah to make a full recovery and are leaving the slug in her leg for now.

“They think the bullet is going to have stay in,” Sarah said. “It didn’t hit a bone and it didn’t fracture anything.”

Her rattled mother, Jacqueline Franco, couldn’t be more proud.

“She’s a real hero,” said Franco, 43, who ran to her daughter’s side after hearing the gunfire and has remained by her hospital bedside. “She’s in a lot of pain.”

Cops are looking for a 23-year-old Bronx man identified by multiple witnesses as the shooter, police said.

“We should have more gun control,” fumed Franco, a criminal justice student at Boricua College. “I wish they could just make guns extinct, period.”

The bloodshed comes on the heels of two senseless shootings of young girls that have outraged the city.

On Friday, 11-year-old Tayloni (Tutu) Mazyck was left paralyzed after being hit with a bullet police say was fired by 17-year-old Kane Cooper near the victim’s home in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn.

And police are still hunting for Kevin McClinton, 21, who they believe fired the shot that killed 14-year-old D’aja Robinson as she was sitting on a Queens bus May 18.

 

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