The innocent 12-year-old boy wounded on a Harlem street corner by a stray bullet Sunday night was home less than 24 hours later — just in time for Christmas Eve.
“We’re all just so happy that our baby is home,” Tonyekiea Whitehead told The Post of her son Jaffari Hopwah. “He’s on crutches, but he can walk, he can talk. Less than a day after my son got shot, he’s home for Christmas. What bigger miracle could I ask for?”
Jaffari was struck in the leg at around 8:30 p.m. after someone fired into a crowd at the corner of East 113th Street and Lexington Avenue, cops said. He ducked into the El Barrio Superette about two blocks north on the corner of East 115th Street, where two officers aided him, and was rushed to NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital in serious but stable condition.
“When I heard he’d been shot, I was hysterical, like a mother is supposed to be,” Whitehead said.
Police haven’t identified a suspect or motive.




