A jewelry store owner was shot during a scuffle with three masked robbers at his Queens business Tuesday evening — and bravely charged at the intruders with a chair, despite bleeding from the head, according to cops and the victim’s family.  

The victim, 59-year-old Manuel Tapia, was working with his 54-year-old wife, Fany Ortiz, inside the A&F jewelry business — a 50-square foot booth that shares space with a beauty salon — around 6:30 p.m. when the violent heist went down. 

“I’m still in shock,” Ortiz said at the business Wednesday. “I’m still trying to cope with what happened.

“It was life or death. I wasn’t expecting them to shoot their guns. I just don’t know what to do. Me, my husband, the hospital — this is terrible for me.”

Dramatic surveillance video reviewed by The Post shows the moment the trio — wearing black winter jackets with their hoods up — barged into the store.

Tapia and Ortiz were inside the booth when one of the suspects jumped through the sliding glass window through which business is conducted, the footage shows.

The suspect was bagging gold chains when the husband-and-wife pair started scuffling with him, the clip shows. 

The thief slapped Ortiz as he continued snatching up chains — before he and Tapia started wrestling, falling out the side door and onto the floor, according to the video.

Ortiz then jumped into action — flinging a mirror at one of the gunmen standing at the front entrance — who in turn fired two shots through the booth’s window. 

One round struck a steaming machine, used to clean jewelry, while the other grazed the side of Tapia’s head, splitting the skin on his temple. 

The suspect who was on the floor stood up and joined his accomplices by the entrance, where Tapia — still bleeding from the head — bravely grabbed a chair and charged them. 

The gunman shot Tapia in the thigh before all three fled the scene, the footage shows.

The wounded man was taken to the Elmhurst Hospital Center, where he was listed in stable condition. 

“My uncle’s in stable condition, luckily. They were able to stitch up his head,” said Tapia’s nephew, Kevin Leon, 21, who was also at the store Wednesday with the couple’s son Robert Tapia, 18.

“The shot through the leg was just a flesh wound,” Leon said. “We couldn’t sleep last night.”

The trio made off with dozens of 18- gold chains, worth more than $15,000 in total — all of which were not insured, according to the family. 

“The whole thing took 30, 40 seconds,” Leon said. “They took the expensive stuff. They knew what the good stuff was. They’ve done this before.”

Tapia and Ortiz, both Ecuadorian immigrants, have owned the business for about two years and live within walking distance of the store, the family said. 

Robbers burglarized the store about a year ago, in broad daylight, while the owners were away, Leon said.

“They’ve been recuperating from that, from the financial impact,” he said. “It’s been difficult around here. The danger has increased dramatically. Jewelry stores keep getting robbed around here.”

“Not just jewelry stores,” he added. “Whatever people can get their hands on, they’ll rob. We were born and raised in this area and it was not like this when we were younger. All of a sudden it’s scary when we go out.

“Whenever somebody walks in, we get paranoid. We’re trying to cope with it. [Ortiz] still has anxiety. She was panicking when this happened.”

The incident comes less than a week after a celebrity jeweler who has worked with stars like Ice Spice, Nicki Minaj and Usher was held at gunpoint and robbed of an estimated $1 million in jewelry in Manhattan’s Diamond District overnight Thursday, police and sources said.

Those robbers looted a single chain — itself valued at $1 million — from a display case before running out and into a black sedan, cops and police sources said.

No one was hurt during that heist.