The grief-stricken mother of a New Jersey high school student who was killed in a weekend shooting remembered how the 18-year-old gave her a “hug and a kiss” before leaving the house for the last time.

“He gave me a hug and I’m like, ‘You’re choking me,’” Hawa Fofana told NJ.com Monday evening about her son, Moussa Fofana, who was gunned down at Underhill Field in Maplewood around 9:40 p.m. Sunday.

“He said, ‘Mommy, I’m just going to give you a kiss.’ He gave me a hug and a kiss, and then he left the house,” she said.

Hours later, Moussa, a senior at nearby Columbia High School, was fatally gunned down not far from the field where he starred for the school’s soccer team.

Another male student, a 17-year-old who has not been publicly identified, was shot in the leg and treated at an area hospital, cops said.

No arrests have been and police have offered few details on the shooting.

“I’m very, very sad,” Fofana told the news outlet as she sat in a car in front of her Maplewood home. “He was so full of life. It’s going to be very difficult. That was my best friend.”

She said police have not told her what happened or why her son was shot.

“I don’t really know right now,” she said, adding that her son was home “all day” Sunday but decided to hang out with a friend around 7:30 p.m.

Friends told The Post on Tuesday that Fofana and the other teen were cutting through the field on their way to watch a late-night boxing match at a pal’s house.

Hawa Fofana told The New York Times that she got a call from a friend around 10 p.m. Sunday that her son had been shot.

In disbelief, she hung up and tried to reach her son via FaceTime — but a police officer answered the call.

“It was like they put cold water over my whole body,” she told The Times. “I was shocked.”

Fofana told NJ.com that authorities are yet to provide her with a possible motive for the killing.

“Wrong place at the wrong time,” she said. “I don’t know what happened.”

Locals told The Post that the stretch of the field where Fofana was gunned down is a popular hangout for teens looking to drink or get high.

“[If] you’re a kid [and] you’re gonna do some bad things like drink and smoke, you go there,” said one local, who requested not to be named. “They’re doing it near Garfield Place because it’s a dead-end and not well lit.” 

Hawa Fofana described her son as a loving boy who dreamed of playing soccer professionally.

“That’s what he wanted to be — a soccer player,” Fofana told NJ.com.

Schoolmates described the tragic teen similarly.

“He was always smiling, always in a good mood,” David Fadael, a 17-year-old junior at Columbia, told The Post.

“He was mad goal-driven too,” added Fadael, referring to Fofana’s aspirations on the soccer pitch. “He had a goal and no one would distract him from his goal. He put in hella hours.”

Added Michael Agu, another 17-year-old junior, “This hurts. What I keep thinking [is], ‘Would Moussa want us to be here sad and crying all the time over his death? Would he want us to keep on pushing and achieving our goals?’ I’m trying to resemble Moussa, the way he used to make that goal.”

Speaking to NJ.com, former Columbia coach Josh Russotto described Fofana as a kid who had “a ton of energy.”

“He had a long life ahead of him,” Russotto told the site. “He had a great smile, he loved life. He was always laughing. He was very passionate about the game. I know he was well liked by many of the players.

“Regardless of age, regardless of what sport, he had a lot of friends,” he added. “It’s just hard to believe.”