A Brooklyn woman whose husband was fatally gunned down on a city bus said Friday that she had no idea how she would support their two children on her own.
“I can’t stay here. I have to pay the rent. I don’t know what I’m going to do next,” said Maria Lopez, 42, whose husband, Angel Rojas, worked two jobs — one at a fruit stand and another at a deli — to take care of the family.
“He lived for us,” she said at their Brownsville apartment. “I don’t know what’s going to happen . . . I thought I was going to die, too.”
Rojas, 41, was riding home from work on a B15 bus in Clinton Hill Thursday evening when two girls jumped on and yelled, “He’s on the bus!”
Moments later, Kahton Anderson, 14, boarded and fired a .357 Magnum, hitting Rojas in the back of the head instead of the intended target, cops say.
“I want justice. He killed an innocent person and because of that we are left alone,” Lopez said Friday.
Anderson is a reputed member of the Stack Money Goons gang and had allegedly been aiming for a rival member of the Twan Family gang, law- enforcement sources said.
He showed no remorse when questioned by investigators, law-enforcement sources said, and didn’t say a word when he was walked from the 79th Precinct station house in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
Anderson, who has a sealed 2011 arrest, has been charged as an adult with murder and criminal possession of a weapon and was ordered held without bail after his arraignment at about 8 p.m. Friday in Brooklyn Criminal Court.
He said nothing and stared at the floor during the proceeding.
Prosecutor Lindsay Gerdes said Anderson confessed to the crime, and that cops recovered the weapon and also took surveillance video from the bus as evidence.
The driver of the bus told The Post it was lucky that more innocents hadn’t been slain.
“It could have been a whole massacre on that bus. There were shots all around. A lot of people could have died,” the driver said.
Rojas’ son was reeling.
“He never should have done it to my dad . . . Why would a 14-year-old have a gun?” said Saury Lopez, 12.
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton called it a sad reminder of the threat of street gangs.
There will be a wake for the victim Monday from 3 to 9 p.m. at the Ponce Funeral Home, 2715 Atlantic Ave.
Additional reporting by Jennifer Bain and Aaron Short