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Deadly Parkway shoot stumps cops

Baffled Queens cops are looking into everything from a possible gang link to road rage in the bizarre, drive-by slaying of a young mom on the Grand Central Parkway on Mother’s Day.

Former Queens resident and mother-of-two Stephanie Taveras, 21, was killed by a bullet to the head in the predawn shooting.

Relatives said Taveras — who was with a man she had met earlier while visiting old friends in Queens — was simply the victim of mistaken identity when another car pulled alongside the man’s BMW and riddled the passenger side with at least 10 bullets.

“It’s like a puzzle,” said her grieving cousin Evelyn Taveras, 32, adding that relatives think Stephanie was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

“Everybody’s hurt. Everybody wants to know what happened. There’s no answers,” the cousin said.

The driver of the BMW, Rafael Herrera, 29, of Queens, has said he met Stephanie at a party earlier Sunday and that the pair were on a booze run when the other car “came out of nowhere and randomly started shooting.”

Herrera, who has previously been arrested for drugs, and Taveras had engaged in a sex act in the car before the shooting began, sources said.

It’s unclear who the target was, law-enforcement sources said.

One source suggested a gang link to the case, but added that nothing has been ruled out.

Stephanie Taveras, of Irvington, NJ, leaves behind a 4-year-old girl and a boy, 1 1/2.

Evelyn pleaded for the public’s help, saying, “To anybody that knows anything, please say something to help solve this case.”

Additional reporting by Julia Marsh