Bronx mom tries to make sense of son’s senseless death: ‘This is the worst day any parent could have’

Black Friday has an entirely different meaning for a Bronx mom mourning a fatally shot during a senseless argument: It was the day she ran out of tears.

“This is hard. You don’t expect anything like this, especially on Thanksgiving,” Michael Roberts’ heartbroken parent, looking completely drained of tears, told the Daily News from her family’s home. The grieving mother declined to give her name. “It’s the worst day any parent could have.”

Roberts, 33, had just left a barber shop near Crotona Park when a woman ran up and began attacking him, his brother Kenny Roberts said.

“The woman had a problem with him,” the sibling said. “She wanted to fight him. He didn’t fight her.”

Police at the scene where a man was shot along Hoe Ave. in the Bronx on Thursday.

Roberts walked away from the screaming woman, but she followed him down the street, his brother said.

As she pursued Roberts, the woman called out to another man, who ran over.

The three were arguing at the corner of Hoe Ave. and E. 174th St. when the woman punched him in the face, cops and relatives said.

A moment later, the man pulled a gun and shot Roberts in the chest. Medics rushed him unconscious to St. Barnabas Hospital, where he later died.

Police at the scene where a man was shot along Hoe Ave. in the Bronx on Thursday.

Roberts was fatally shot two and a half blocks from his family’s home.

“He didn’t get to eat his Thanksgiving dinner,” Kenny Roberts said. “The whole family is torn apart.”

Roberts was gunned was a building super who managed three addresses, relatives said. He has an 18-year-old daughter, who, unlike her grandmother, hasn’t stopped crying.

“She misses him and cries all the time,” Roberts mom said. “He was a very loving young man. He took care of the elderly people in the neighborhood. He loved life.”

Police at the scene where a man was shot along Hoe Ave. in the Bronx on Thursday.

Kenny Roberts isn’t a stranger to losing someone to gun violence. Ten months ago he lost his son to gun violence in an unrelated incident, although he didn’t share any details of his child’s killing. So far, no arrests have been made, he said.

The woman who started the argument with Roberts “is still on the street,” his brother said.

“I want (the cops) to find out who killed my son and my brother so we can get justice,” he said.

Cops were scouring the area for surveillance footage that can help them identify the two people Roberts was arguing with.

Anyone with information regarding their whereabouts is urged to call NYPD Crime Stoppers at (800) 577-TIPS.

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