An 8-year-old boy shot Tuesday in a Bronx bodega tried to keep his mother calm as blood seeped from his chest. Second grader Armando Bigo was in search of candy when he walked into his neighborhood store when a stray bullet hit him in the chest. Click below to read the rest of the story and the video.

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But as the little boy scanned a rack of potato chips near an open door, a gunman on a bike fired into a crowd outside about 8 p.m.

“All of a sudden, we heard a shot,” said the mother, Ely Flores, 31. “I called out for my son…I was screaming hysterically.”

But the child, who clutched his upper left chest when he was hit, told his worried mother not to cry.

“I’m OK, mommy — why are you crying?” Flores recalled, looking shell-shocked. “I said, ‘You’re shot, that’s why I’m crying.’”

Mahmood Abdulrub, the store’s manager, ran toward the boy when he saw that the child was hit.

“I heard screaming,” Abdulrub said. “The mom cried for her son. I see this cute little boy walking over slowly holding his left shoulder.”

Abdulrub said the wounded boy didn’t utter a word.

“He looked stunned,” he said. “There was blood everywhere.”
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