“They killed him! They killed him!”
The sobbing wife of an innocent Brooklyn man murdered on a city bus laid her head on his chest at his wake Monday as she voiced her anger over his senseless death.
Maria Lopez, 42, lost her husband Angel Rojas when he was hit with a bullet in the back of his head Thursday afternoon while riding the B15.
She said at the Ponce Funeral Home in East New York that she keeps waiting for him to come through the door.
“You just don’t know what I’m feeling. They killed him!” she said. “I don’t have any more strength. Oh my God, what am I going to do? I’m left all alone! This is like a nightmare I need to wake up from.”
Her devastated son Saury, 12, said that his dad “was the best man in the world.”
Daughter Abril, 8, had tears streaming down her face. “I love my dad and he was the best dad I ever had,” she said.
Rojas had a large green, blue, and yellow flower arrangement to the left of the casket at the wake in the shape of a heart with a Yankees insignia in the center.
There were also white and yellow tulips in vases on the ground near the casket.
Well-wishers have raised enough money to pay for the wake in Brooklyn, as well as for a funeral in Rojas’ native Dominican Republic, where he will be buried.
“Angel was so close to his kids,” said cousin Jose Guerrero, 26. “They were the loves of his life.”
Rojas, of Brownsville, worked two jobs at a fruit stand and a deli to take care of his family.
He had the misfortune of riding the bus home from work Thursday evening when two girls jumped on and yelled, “He’s on the bus!”
Shortly after, Kahton Anderson, 14, boarded and fire a .357 Magnum, hitting Rojas in the back of the head—rather than his intended target.
Anderson is believed to a member of the Stack Money Goons gang, and had been aiming for a rival member of the Twan family gang, law-enforcement sources told the Post.
He was charged as an adult with murder and weapon possession, and held without bail after his arraignment on Friday.
Sources said he showed no response when questioned by investigators about the murder of the Brooklyn dad.