A 14-year-old Bronx girl was struck by stray gunfire in broad daylight on Thanksgiving — while she was on her way to pick up brown sugar for her family’s sweet-potato holiday pie, her distraught mom said.

“It’s out of control,” the victim’s mom railed to The Post Friday of rising gun violence gripping the Big Apple.

“It’s every day. Every day you hear something happening.”

The mom said she sent her daughter and her 16-year-old son to the store for the last-minute ingredient run — and received a panicked call from her son just a few minutes after they left home.

Her teen daughter had been shot in the leg around 2:30 p.m. in the afternoon just steps from Edenwald Playground on Schieffelin Avenue near East 225th Street.

“They literally just left the house – less than five minutes,” the woman said.

Police don’t believe the girl was the intended target.

“I’m hurt by this,” added the mom, who didn’t want to be named. “I am grateful that my daughter is alive.”

The teens weren’t sure where the shots came from but the older brother helped his limping sister into a nearby building.

When their mom mom arrived, cops and EMS were already helping the sobbing girl with her wound.

“She was crying. I tried to get to her but they were already working on her leg,” the mother said. “I was able to touch her hand, rub her head, her hair, her face to comfort her.”

The girl was taken to Jacobi Medical Center for treatment and later released.

The mom said her kids were “traumatized” but her 14-year-old daughter was home and “doing OK.”

“It happened on day when the family was together to help comfort her. She was surrounded by love,” the mom said.

“I want whoever did this to pay but God is in control. If you don’t repent, you’ll pay one day.”

NYPD cops and members of an FBI task force were back on the scene of the shooting looking for evidence Friday.

Cops did not have any information on a suspect and it remained unclear who the shooter was targeting.

Meanwhile, neighbors were left shaken by the daylight holiday shooting — and scared to let their children go outside.

Samantha Wright, 35, said the shots rang out while she was in her kitchen.

“I heard three shots — pop, pop, pop — right behind each other,” Wright told The Post. 

“They sounded like fire crackers but I said, ‘no, that’s not firecrackers.’ I was scared to look outside.” 

Wright said she had even sent her own 14-year-old daughter to the store prior to the shooting.

“Not even our kids are safe here — and you can’t keep them inside the house,” the fed-up parent said. “They have to go outside. It’s really sad.”

Another mom, who asked to be identified as Sade E, said parents in the community need to stand together and take things into their own hands.

“I do not think I will really let them go outside now, like, they really would have to make it safer for the children because now it’s to the point where a 14 year-old cannot go outside,” the 33-year-old mother of three told The Post.

“I think we’d travel if they ever wanted to go outside… Lately it has been crazy with the gun violence.”

Neftaly Gonzalez, 60, who lives in the nearby Edewald Houses said the state of New York City is a “real tragedy.”

“A child can’t walk to the store anymore. It’s terrible. You see people protest all the time but nothing has changed. You still see people getting shot every day,” she said, sitting on a bench in the courtyard.

“A young age like that, she is gonna have to live with the trauma for the rest of her life,” Gonzalez added.

“It shouldn’t have happened. It is a real tragedy what’s happening nowadays.”

At least eight innocent bystanders were struck by stray bullets in October alone, including another 14-year-old who was shot in the leg outside his Staten Island high school, The Post reported last month.

Police stats show that, overall, shootings in the city are down 15.7% this year compared to the same period last year. However, the number of shootings citywide has surged more than 67% over the past five years, the statistics show.

The 14-year-old girl was one of four victims in four separate shootings in the five boroughs on Thanksgiving Day – including two fatal incidents in the Bronx, according to cops.

Three people were shot on Turkey Day 2021, the NYPD said.

On Thanksgiving morning at about 10:40 a.m., a man was killed in shooing in the Charlotte Gardens section of the Bronx, with circumstances of the shooting still remaining murky on Friday.

Hours after the 14-year-old was shot, a 23-year-old man was fatally gunned down in the Wakefield section of the Bronx.