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Squirt shooter bawls

Too little, too late.

Baby-faced gunman Carvett Gentles cried like a baby when told his bid to earn street cred with a vicious gang had left an innocent 15-year-old girl clinging to life, and he told cops he wished it had never happened, sources said yesterday.

The 16-year-old gangster wannabe was just trying to impress his hoodlum relatives when he opened fire on a crowded Bronx street Monday in an attempt to kill a gang enemy and accidentally shot Vada Vasquez in the head, relatives said yesterday.

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The teen terror had looked to his uncle Rohan Francis, 18, and cousins Clivie, 19, and Cleve Smith, 20 — members of the Gorilla Bloods — for support after having difficulties at home with his stepfather, relatives said.

But instead of giving him brotherly advice, they roped him into a life of violence that could now land him in jail for 25 years.

Gentles’ mother, Zelita Mighty, wept in Bronx Criminal Court yesterday as her son, Francis, the Smith brothers and Dwayne Taylor, 23, were held without bail on attempted-murder charges.

Prosecutors said Gentles admitted he had been aiming for gang enemy Tyrone Creighton, whom he shot twice while also hitting Vasquez once in the head. She remains in a coma.

When faced with the bloody reality of what he had done, Gentles broke down and asked repeatedly whether Vasquez was going to be all right, sources said.

Gentles’ cousin Garfield Francis said the boy had moved to the South Bronx from Jamaica when he was 6 years old, joining his mother who had moved there a few years earlier and remarried.

“He was a quiet boy — low-spoken and shy,” Francis said.

But as he got older, Gentles grew to dislike his mother’s new husband.

“They just didn’t get along,” Francis said. “It got to the point where he wasn’t staying with his mother anymore.”

Gentles turned to his uncle Rohan Francis, who led a small pack of thugs who terrorized their South Bronx neighborhood, selling drugs and getting into gun battles with enemy crews.

“He looked up to him,” Garfield Francis said.

Additional reporting by Denise Buffa

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