Metro

Kid shootings tied to gangs

A feud between rival Brooklyn gangbangers led to Sunday’s drive-by shooting that left a 2-year-old girl, a teenage boy and four others wounded, sources said.

Ariyanna Prince, 2, remained in Brookdale Hospital yesterday, as doctors tried to get her fever under control so they could operate and clean the bullet wound to her knee.

“She’s OK. She’s just been sleeping, ” mom Jahlessa Westry said as Ariyanna lay on her hospital bed surrounded by balloons and being bathed by a nurse. The little girl doesn’t even know she was shot.

“She just knows it hurts,” said Westry.

Ariyanna’s dad, Michael Prince, who was also wounded, said last night that his daughter was “going to make a full recovery.”

This latest shooting, in Brownsville, was the city’s third this summer in which a child under 5 was hit by a stray bullet.

Another of Sunday’s victims, Kentrell Simpson, is all of 13.

Sources said the gunman, riding in a white VW Jetta with Florida license plates, was believed to be targeting Andrew “Smooth” Void, 17, a reputed member of the Hoodstarz gang, which is at war with the Wave Gang.